When you take off your rose-tinted glasses and look at your Christian life, you realise that you are not ALWAYS obeying God happily or willingly. Sometimes/often you don't want to obey. One of the common lies we tell ourselves is that if we obey God when we don't feel like it, we are being a hypocrite. When you're told to take out the trash, do you refuse to do it because you don't feel like it and doing so will make you a hypocrite?
Obeying when we don't feel like it is not hypocrisy. Jesus wants us to take up our cross and follow him but if it was not a burden, what is the point of Jesus telling us to take up our cross? if it cost us nothing or if we would do it anyway, what's the point of telling us to do it. There are times that we won't feel like obeying but when we choose to obey ANYWAY, we are saying "nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." An example given before is - are you a hypocrite for getting out of bed in the morning when you dont feel like it? You're only a hypocrite if you don't get out of bed and pass comment on those that don't get out of bed.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
If you lack the willingness.. do the right thing anyway but ask God for the willingness because it is the WILL and the DO of His good pleasure that comes from God. But you have to take a first step and leave the journey to God. Trust and obey ==> Grace?
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