Daily Adjustments

[S] Hebrew 5:8 --
 ⁸Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.

[O] This verse encourages me because it implies obedience is not easy!  Even God's own Son had to learn obedience.  It is true that what Jesus had to obey was many orders of magnitude higher than what I would ever think of but the fact that obedience is not something you're born with encourages me to continue learning despite the number of failures before and still to come.  Now the end of this verse mentions the obedience of Christ included His suffering.  It was not merely getting up a little earlier to start the day with devotions, but the suffering of being detached from God the Father and then to bear the painful cross and humiliation and then to surrender His own Spirit into the hands of death.  Did He know He will rise again conquering the death?  Yes, but that does not make the process any less painful.

[A] Obedience is not about one day I will be up against an awesome opportunity where I will either obey and come through with flying colors, but it is about constantly making adjustments in my own life through daily devotions in God's word to learn from smaller things how to obey despite the sacrifices and suffering involved.  I must obey the calling of Jesus about taking up my cross daily, not weekly, monthly or yearly.

[P] Dear God, in the midst of so many distraction, I want to put the personal time I have with You foremost.  Please allow me to adjust my own schedules to do just that.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.