live.obey.love.believe. {what I'm learning}

"This is love for God: to obey His commands. And His commands are not burdensome." 1 John 5:3 (NIV)


The more I search the scriptures looking for insight into obedience and trust, the more I see how much blessing and real life are tied up in them. In my year's (or life's) quest to {live.obey.love.believe.} I'm wowed by verses like this:

And I command you today: Love God, your God. Walk in his ways. Keep his commandments, regulations, and rules so that you will live, really live, live exuberantly, blessed by God, your God, in the land you are about to enter and possess. Deuteronomy 30:16 (the message)

I love how it says to Love God, your God...sometimes I don't think about how Yahweh, God of the Universe is my God. He's on a very personal level with me, in a relationship as unique as each individual star. He's my God.

I also am floored by the notion that in order to live, really live, live exuberantly (my, doesn't that sound amazing to live exuberantly, or maybe I'm just being too ambitious for this new morning?), I must keep God's commands. As in be obedient. Obedience=Exuberant Life. Who'da thunk it? (I have never ever in my life typed the words Who'da thunk it, and right about now I'm thinking of deleting it, but to keep me humble in case you all think that is the most ridiculous think a person could write, I'm keeping it in. You know, because some of you maybe aren't sure of my dork status).

What's awesome to is that the thing God is calling me to be obedient in is love. Love Him, love others. And if I'm to take his word as truth, then those commands aren't burdensome.