Obedience matters

Following on from the debate at Carol’s yesterday and within the context of my own confession (see below) Iread the following this morning from Finney’s “Lectures to professing Christians’

“all true religion consists in obedience. And, therefore, however much you may approve of Christianity, you have no religion unless you obey it. In saying that all religion consists in obedience, I do not mean outward obedience. But faith
itself, true faith, works by love, and produces corresponding action. There is
no real obedience but the obedience of the heart: love is the fulfilling of the
law; and religion consists in the obedience of the heart, with a corresponding course of life. The man, therefore, who hears the truth, and approves it, and does not practice it, deceiveth himself. He is like the man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and
straightway forgetteth what manner of a man he was.”

Enough said.

Yours set part by Christ, for the lost, in the Army

Andrew