Through the Good and the Bad

This morning I was doing me Bible reading this morning and I came across this verse. Jeremiah 5-6 "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the LORD your God sends you to tell us. Whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we will obey the LORD our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it will go well with us, for we will obey the LORD our God." Wow. I had to go back and re-read this verse twice this morning. Think about it we are suppose to obey God even when what he is telling us to do is not favorable to us. Great example of this in the Bible is Abraham and when God tells him to sacrifice Isaac. Even though that was his only son born to him and Sarah and was not something I am sure Abraham wanted to do; he still obeyed God. And look at how that story ends. These people are coming to Jeremiah to ask what God's will is for them and that they will obey him no matter what God tells them to do. Yet they rebel and God knew this before it even happen. They decided to not go with God's plan for their life and they were going to either be killed or held captive because of this disobedience. If God calls us to something, whether it is favorable or unfavorable, we should obey because no matter what it is that he is calling us to He will be there to guide us all the way. What is God calling me to do today? What plans does he have set before me? Will I obey no matter what? Will you?