Willing and Obedient

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. Isaiah 1:19

A Syrian general came to Elisha wanting him to cure his disease. Elisha told him to dip in the Jordon River seven times. The general got mad and refused to do it because that's not what he wanted. 

We want God's blessing without doing what God says to do. We can be willing but not obedient, or sometimes we are obedient and not  willing. If a chore needs to be done around the house, you can say yes right away but wait as long as you can to do it. That's being willing but not obedient. You can say "I did it last time,” and then do it. That is being unwilling but obedient. It is only when these two principles are working together that we see good, whether in life or in the things of God. You can't experience God's blessing if you aren't tithing because that's the way God set it up.

by Rick (Papa) Wilson