Obedience ...

Here's a wonderful tribute to a tribe of people (the Recabites) who's stand out compliment is to do with their willingness to be faithful through obedience. They were known for the fact that they were instructed to "not drink wine, not to plant vines or build houses or plant crops, rather to merely live in tents." In so doing they were promised "If you follow these commands you will live long, good lives in the land." So what do you think they did? "So they obeyed in all these things."

It is interesting to find the amount of times that people start well, but fall away in the ensuing months or years. But here are a people commended for sticking to the command that had been directed to them. More than this, they are actually used here as an example for the Israel (as Jeremiah is to address both Judah and Jerusalem to "come learn a lesson about how to obey Me ..."

Have a look through the Scripture passage:  Jeremiah 35: 1-19

The lesson for us today is that firstly, we clearly discern (understand, hear, interpret) the message of instruction that God has for us today and the days ahead. Secondly that we ensure that we act upon the instruction as it is declared to us, in faithfulness and obedience. 

Here is a way that we might be an example of others to learn and also become true followers of the living God.