Trusting and obeying God

• There was a great analogy that he used for trusting God even when his direction is not the humanly intuitive direction:  He described a scene where he was driving somewhere using a GPS device, and the GPS was telling him to go in another direction than where he knew his destination was.  Point was that he didn’t know there was a mountain range in front of him and the GPS was directing him around something it knew was in front of him, but he didn’t.  God’s direction needs to be trusted and obeyed – he is all knowing and loves us – or we get ourselves into trouble.
• Doyle also talked about obeying as NOT what we do to earn grace but what we do IN RESPONSE to grace.  His analogy was that he loves his wife so much that he would never do something that would hurt her – like an affair.  He doesn’t stay faithful because of the marriage contract, he stays faithful (obeys) because he loves her so much.  The same is true as we obey God and Christ.