Obedience

So one of my lil brothers is 11... the one who tries to do everything like me... dance... draw (he got better than me @ that)... play drums, and other instruments... the only thing he doesn't follow me in is being a good student in school because he hates school... and being obedient... my brother does what he wants all the time, no matter if it'll get him in trouble later... on Sunday my mother gave him a five dollar bill and told him only to spend $2 and no more and she was going to ask for the change... she said this to him more than once and other people even asked him now how much money are you allowed to spend and he said $2... He spent $2.50... yes it was only $.50 but it was the fact that he was told not to spend the money... afterwards he tried to act like he dropped the other $.50 in between the seats of our truck but no one was fooled... and then today his camp went swimming... my brother is growing dreads and his hair gets out of wack when its not wet... my mother told him like 5x not to get his hair wet... she had me remind him before they left not to get his hair wet... needless to say he came back with not only his hair wet but he was under water and all... and he asks me to do his hair... LOL I told him he deserves to have his hair look a mess for a day... and of course he's grounded with no TV for the rest of the week... because of it... guess who was sneaking and watching TV and got caught...

Why am I telling y'all all this??? No, not to tell you how bad my brother is... How often are we like children to God and blatantly disobedient just like my brother? How many times does God tell us to do something but we don't want to so we don't? How many times does God tell us not to do something and we know we shouldn't but we do anyway because it's only one little thing? How many times do we try to cover up our disobedience or give rationale to it??? This is so dangerous because not only are we hurting ourselves in the moment, but we are preventing God from blessing us and from our continual growth in the purpose for which we were called... as the saying goes Obedience is better than Sacrifice... what will you be sacrificing? Only God knows... so I suggest you obey...