Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - of The Global Church of the Nazarene in Lenexa, Kansas, United States "His Way" for Sunday, 22 February 2015 Scripture: Obadiah 1:15-21

Reflecting God - Embrace Holy Living - of The Global Church of the Nazarene in Lenexa, Kansas, United States "His Way" for Sunday, 22 February 2015 Scripture: Obadiah 1:15 For the Day of Adonai is near for all nations;

as you did, it will be done to you;

your dealings will come back on your own head.

16 For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain,

so will all the nations drink in turn;

yes, they will drink and gulp it down

and be as if they had never existed.

17 But on Mount Tziyon there will be

a holy remnant who will escape,

and the house of Ya‘akov will repossess

their rightful inheritance.

18 The house of Ya‘akov will be a fire

and the house of Yosef a flame,

setting aflame and consuming

the stubble which is the house of ‘Esav.

None of the house of ‘Esav will remain,

for Adonai has spoken.

19 Those in the Negev will repossess

the mountain of ‘Esav,

and those in the Sh’felah

the land of the P’lishtim;

they will repossess the field of Efrayim

and the field of Shomron,

and Binyamin will occupy Gil‘ad.

20 Those from this army of the people of Isra’el

exiled among the Kena‘anim as far away as Tzarfat,

and the exiles from Yerushalayim in S’farad,

will repossess the cities in the Negev.

21 Then the victorious will ascend Mount Tziyon

to rule over Mount ‘Esav,

but the kingship will belong to Adonai.

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"His Way" by Author: John Juneman
Obadiah was written not only as a prophecy against Edom, but also as an encouragement to Israel. In it is pronounced one of God’s eternal principles: “As you have done, it will be done for you.” The world would say, “What goes around comes around,” and this is true to a great extent.
One spiritual danger for us can be that we find ourselves watching and waiting for our enemies to get the punishment due them. God frees us from this kind of bitterness through the simple truth stated in Obadiah 1:15 and then expounded by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you” (Matthew 7:12). In so doing, we trust the results to God and His perfect ways. Furthermore, it leads us to realize that no one needs Jesus and His grace more than us today, and we have in Him all that we could ask or imagine. Would I focus on Him today and trust that He is in control of all things, both in this world and eternity?
Hymn for Today: "When we walk with the Lord" by Author: John H. Sammis (1887)

1. When we walk with the Lord 

in the light of his word, 

what a glory he sheds on our way! 

While we do his good will, 

he abides with us still, 

and with all who will trust and obey. 

Refrain:

Trust and obey, for there's no other way 

to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. 

2. Not a burden we bear, 

not a sorrow we share, 

but our toil he doth richly repay; 

not a grief or a loss, 

not a frown or a cross, 

but is blest if we trust and obey.

Refrain:

Trust and obey, for there's no other way 

to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

3. But we never can prove 

the delights of his love 

until all on the altar we lay; 

for the favor he shows, 

for the joy he bestows, 

are for them who will trust and obey.

Refrain:

Trust and obey, for there's no other way 

to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

4. Then in fellowship sweet 

we will sit at his feet, 

or we'll walk by his side in the way; 

what he says we will do, 

where he sends we will go; 

never fear, only trust and obey.

 Refrain:

Trust and obey, for there's no other way 

to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.

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