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When we [walk in obedience], we are truly living...we are truly willing to trust what God says about us, others, and this world.

Just look at the command: "Love your enemies". This is saying that God is enough for us...He who was forsaken understands...He knows we have been sinned against; that is how we can let it go and forgive. We hold on and want to punish because we feel that it is all up to us to make sure justice is served. But to forgive is to put our well-being, our very eternal lives, in God's hands…trusting that He notices everything in our lives...that all will be addressed. But also that those 'wicked ones' who have sinned against us are also made in the image of God...that "all have sinned", even myself. It esteems the reason why Christ had to come for us ALL. It truly holds God as sovereign AND caring in my life.

When we obey we are fully living and therefore are open to experience the presence of God. We enter into "the Dance", as Lewis puts it. Obedience is how WE enter the dance. Most of us sit around and talk about the dance, convincing ourselves that we are dancing. Should we be surprised that the dance is unappealing to us? It shouldn't...we've only been dancing with our selves...our 'broken' selves, I might add. But to obey is to follow Christ and enter a new life...to finally enter into the "Dance" with Him Who gave Himself for us. He Who knows us the best, and loves us the most....He who died that we might begin to live as we were truly meant to be.