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So many sparks today around obedience!

• the story of Saul. “To obey is better than sacrifice; to listen than the fat of rams.”
• the development of consequences in David’s life. He chose between three consequences in his later years. Also, consequences turned him towards, but away from, the Lord.
• the more God’s covenant people fail, the more he presses into his covenant promises.
• disobedience doesn’t equate to a total loss. God kept working with Abram to bring about blessing to the nations. God let Moses partially fill the role he’d at first denied.
• the simplicity of God’s commands. He makes few demands and many promises. His commands aren’t for laying out a perfect human life, but are a relational directive based in trust. To disobey says more about distrust than perfection. God is much less concerned about mistakes than about relational barriers.