God Will Have Obedience

The life of the child of God is a life of obedience to God. Not an external obedience, but an obedience that proceeds from the heart and affects the thoughts, words, and actions. This obedience, a result of the work of God’s grace in our hearts, is part of the life of thankfulness which we live. It is impossible to live in obedience if we are not thankful. This is a Biblical idea developed throughout the Heidelberg Catechism. In Lord’s Day 33 we read of the mortification of the old man and the...