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What a wonderful thing it would be to have this thought in our hearts: “Jesus, I love to obey You.” Personal communion with the Savior will be followed by the joy of personal service and allegiance. Are you ready to obey in all humility and weakness and reverence? Can you say, “Yes, Lord Jesus, I will obey”? If so, give yourself up to Him completely. Then your thinking will be, “I am not going to speak one word if I think that Jesus would not like to hear it. I am not going to have an opinion of my own, but my whole life is going to be covered with the purity of Christ’s obedience to the Father and His self-sacrificing love for me. I want Christ to have my whole life, my whole heart, my whole character. I want to be like Christ and to obey.” Give yourself up to this loving obedience.

-Andrew Murray, The Practice of God's Presence, p.288 

James 3:2-3 ASV - 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. 3 Now if we put the horses' bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.

James 3:2 tells me that my words are an indicator of the way my life is heading. If I obey in what I say, then I will obey in what I do. 

2 Corinthians 10:5 ASV - casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

The good news is, Christ is ready and willing take the reins if I will accept the bridle. So, even when I forget my place and start to get mad because someone did me wrong, I can hand the reins back to Christ. I can say, “Oops no, that thought slipped out. Take it, please.” Christ will take it, so that it doesn’t cause me to stumble. I’m not qualified to handle it. I cannot rebuke my own pride. Give it to Christ to overcome for you. In this way, I humble myself by declaring that when I am weak Christ is mighty to save in all circumstances. What I have done is not important, because Christ is ready, able, and willing no matter what I have done. Bridle up! Obey again. I am most free when Jesus Christ sets my course not on the basis of what I have done, but on the basis of sticking by obedience to what is absolutely best for me. Thank You Jesus!

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