My Heart Is On Fire By Doug Apple - A Short Christian Devotional To Open The Scriptures And Make Your Heart Burn Within You!

I’m Doug Apple...and my heart is on fire. (Luke 24:32) The word “obedience” sounds harsh to some people. They think of abusive parents, or schoolteachers with paddles, or military drill instructors. We can be leery of obeying anyone because we are free Americans and we bow the knee to no one. Plus, if we put ourselves under anyone’s authority, they might take advantage of us. There is truth to all of that, but what about when it comes to obeying God? Well…some people put obeying God into the same category. They don’t like the word obedience, period, even when talking about God. So today I want to put obedience into a different light. Actually, I’m not doing it. Jesus did it, in the Sermon on the Mount. At the end of that famous sermon, He talked about obedience in a completely different way, by putting it into construction terms. Now think about construction. When you are building a building, there are certain principles you have to follow, or your building