Submit To Him

Proverbs 3:5-6 – Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Isaiah 38:3 – “Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Psalm 5:8 – Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies—make your way straight before me.

Isaiah 40:3 – A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Hosea 4:1 – Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.

Hosea 6:6 – For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings

Application:

• ·         David challenged Solomon to serve God “with wholehearted devotion”.
• ·         Like David, Hezekiah was truly faithful.
• ·         Be ever mindful of God and serve Him with a willing, faithful and obedient heart.
• ·         The psalmist prays that God will so direct him that his enemies will have no grounds for their malicious accusations.
• ·         John declares that repentance is necessary to prepare the way for Christ.
• ·         “Faithfulness” is loyalty to the covenant Lord and right dealing with others
• ·         Sacrifice apart from faithfulness to the Lord’s will is wholly unacceptable to Him.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV