The Will of My Father
It is because we are a people of such high intelligence, and perhaps the threat of product liability litigation, that the following warning labels were recently found on consumer products? On a Duraflame fireplace log: "Caution - Risk of Fire." On a children’s Batman costume: "Warning: Cape does not enable user to fly.” On a bottle of hair coloring: "Do not use as an ice cream topping." On a cardboard sun shield for a car: "Do not drive with sun shield in place." And, for the first time parent, this label was found on a portable stroller: "Caution: Remove infant before folding for storage."
Someone made the suggestion that large, fluorescent colored stickers be placed on the cover of all Bibles. Buyers would be required to read the sticker aloud to a cashier before the purchase. It will read, “Warning! Reading this book with no intention of obeying it is hazardous to eternal life.”
Oswald Chambers took the insight and formulated it as a challenge when he wrote, “Never try to explain God until you have obeyed Him. The only bit of God we understand is the bit we have obeyed.” Biblical knowledge without practical obedience is a form of illusion.
In Matthew chapter 7 beginning at verse 21 we read …
“Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'”
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