To Obey is better than sacrifice

I recently wrote a post regarding Sacrifice and before that one regarding an issue we had in our Church (We or I...does it really matter)

I remember praying about the I and we thing and remember feeling God saying to me that it doesn’t matter what matters in that you are obedient. I was still unsure until recently.

Our Church hold several Holy spirit teaching sessions each week.. These are not services but where we are taught. This week we were learning about obedience and also what it means to be disobedient. The scripture below was read and I can honestly say my life can never be the same.

1 Samuel 15

Has the Lord as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices,
as in obedience to the voice of the Lord?
Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to heed than the fat of rams.
²³For rebellion is no less a sin than divination,
and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has also rejected you from being king.’ (NRSV)

When God asks us as individuals or as a church to do something then we should obey being obedient to Gods Word is far more important than anything else.

John 14

¹⁵If you love me, you will obey what I command. ¹⁶And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counsellor to be with you forever— ¹⁷the Spirit of truth

²³Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. ²⁴He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.