💗 “If You Love Me” 💗 FAL – Chapter 13 🎤📖

Hello beautiful brides, it’s Adina from South Africa and I want to share with you what I’ve learned from Chapter 13 “If You Love Me”.

First of all, I want to share this chapter's opening verse, because it really made me think about love and obedience:

In the verse the Lord says: “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”

Do we love Him enough to obey Him no matter what? Our obedience to the Lord shows Him how much we love Him, just like our disobedience shows Him that we do not love Him.

Likewise, if we love the Lord and want to honour Him, we must be obedient and submit to all the authorities over us, whether it’s an earthly husband, a boss or our parents, whether we agree with them or not, we need to submit and be obedient.

Submission finds favour with the Lord, and just like the author, I also want to be surrounded by favour and the abundant life.

I used to be very rebellious, towards my parent, my bosses and my fh while we were still married. Although I did not always act on my rebellion, on the inside I would be murmuring and complaining and I made sure everybody knew I was not happy about it, even while I was being “obedient” and did what I had to do. And the fruits of my rebellion showed in the destruction of my life. But my Heavenly Husband graciously changed me so much, and I am now able to happily agree and obey.

But I am not perfect yet and have to boast in my weakness, just a couple of days ago the feeling of rebellion boiled up inside of me again for the first time in a long time when I was told how to run my household now that I see the children every day again. I agreed with what was said, but on the inside I was kicking and screaming. BUT, I have my Heavenly Husband now and because I do want to be obedient to Him, more than anything, I gave it to Him. He immediately took those feelings away from me and I was able to just let it go and surrender it to Him.

Although my parents are deceased, I constantly find myself thinking what my mother would have me do if she was still alive, and then I do it, honouring her even if she is not here anymore.

Like the author said in the last passage; “begin to watch your day-to-day living habits to see ways to obey. Remember we don’t need to try to disobey, we need to try to obey. Then, once you begin this enhanced journey, you will be amazed experiencing how great it is to walk in God’s perfect will where you are always surrounded with favour and blessings.”

And obedience and the dangers of rebellion, is something we have to teach and instil in our children from a very young age so they can also be surrounded be favour and walk in the truth.