Obedience

"Our good and gracious Father does not give is a little slither of grace for obedience, and then leave us exhausting ourselves in futile attempts to draw strength from the well of self-effort. He gives us the full measure of grace needed to victoriously live the Christian ice, not just sometimes, not just when out 'if only' ideals become a reality. 

Right now, in your current situation and season of life, God has made available to you all that is needed for glad obedience. it is when we are relying on our own strength and power to obey, and not on the power of Christ that we find ourselves failing and faltering.  It is then that we are tempted to shift the blame for disobedience onto our own circumstances; it is that that we insist that we would obey 'if only'." 

-Elsje Zornes