Obedience/Worship; Glory/Us

Following Gods instruction is hard.

Listening, Hearing, Knowing isn't enough; at all.

We have to follow through to completion our obedience.

Abraham was called to sacrifice Isaak to God and Abraham was prepared to do that.
He went out the next day to sacrifice his only true born son and God saw that he feared
Him and stopped Abraham, provided another sacrifice, and blessed him.
A word we see in the aforementioned passage of scripture is "worship"
In Genesis 22:5 Abraham says in justifies the subsequent actions by stating-

"...I and the lad will go yonder; and we will worship, and come back".

This is the first time worship is used in the Bible.
This is used in reference to the act of obeying Gods command.
We see Abraham persevere 3 days by walking up a mountain with his son, possibly a test from
God to see if Abraham would turn back.

I don't even know where to start with all of this because honestly, this is still fresh in my brain.
And honestly, God keeps popping it up into my mind; and my spirit is stirred.

God has been testing me to see if I will obey Him.

It is frustrating.

But do you know what? I don't care.
I don't care how frustrating obeying God is.
Because He is enough.
MORE than enough.

What helps me get through tough times of obedience is looking at God and saying:
I STILL LOVE YOU.
YOU ARE STILL GOOD.
YOU WILL HELP ME GET THROUGH THIS.
You will NEVER give me more than I can bear,
because I am with You, God.
I am with You, and if You are for me, who can be against me.

"God,
Please, Continue to test me,
Because the harder things get, the more I hold on to You.
The closer I draw to Your sufficiency and the closer You come to me.
I asked You for a hug the other night and You comforted by.
I told you I loved You and You said.
"I LOVE YOU TOO."
You are enough for me, You are MORE than enough for me.
Continually reveal Yourself to me God-
Continually speak to me.
God, help me to love, as You love.
Help me to begin to understand how beautiful You are.

I love You,
-Amen"

I was listening to John Bevere about obedience, and reward, and then I listened to John Piper preaching about the "prosperity gospel"-
I was torn apart and rocked by what he said makes God look beautiful.

"I'll tell you what makes Jesus look beautiful:
It's when you smash your car, and your little girl goes flying through the windshield, and lands dead on the street. And you say, through the deepest possible pain- 'God is enough. He is good; He will satisfy us; He will get us through this; He is our treasure. Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth there is nothing I desire besides you. My heart and my flesh and my little girl may fail- But you are the strength of my heart; my portion forever'. That makes God look glorious...I pray the church would be marked by suffering for Christ. God is most glorified in you, when you are most satisfied in Him in the midst of loss; not prosperity."

Loving God, worshiping, obedience, is all great in prosperity.
But if we forget to glorify God in the midst of our suffering, our hurt, our pain, our persecution-

We.
Missed.
The.
Point.

"And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
-Job 1:21