The Next Obedience Is His Finishing Work in You

The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals

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Here is what I am learning this week.

The next obedience in front of me is not my project. It is His. He is the One finishing what He began in me — and the way He is finishing me is through the specific obedience He has already named in Scripture.

So the small thing I have read but not yet done is the place where His sanctifying work is already underway. My part is to walk in what He is already doing.

CHEW with Me

Clarity

Most of the time, I treat my sanctification as a project I manage and God supervises.

Scripture reverses it. “He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion.” He is the project manager. I am the apprentice on His jobsite.

Find the specific verse you have read in the last month that you have not yet acted on. That is not a coincidence. That is the jobsite assignment.

Hear

This is not a verse to apply. It is a Father telling me who I am to Him. Stay with what He says.

He began the good work. He brings it to completion. He is the subject of both verbs — not me.

And the way He brings it to completion is named in the next verse over: “For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” He works the willing. He works the working. The obedience itself is His.

I am not the project manager of my becoming. He is. I am the one He is teaching to take the next step He has already named in His Word.

Today’s verses to hear:

“And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 1:6)

“For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:13)

Exchange

The hunt for the next insight, I am learning, is a hunger to be the project manager of my own becoming.

God’s love already runs that project, in Christ, from start to finish. The next obedience is His work in me.

When I really believed God’s love finishes what He starts in me through the next obedience already named in Scripture, I stopped collecting insights to manage my growth. I did the small obedience He had already given me.

Sit with that for sixty seconds. Picture the verse you have read but not yet obeyed. Name the one small action He is already working in you through it. Write it in one line — the verse, then the obedience. That line is your Walk.

Walk

Here is the turn I am making this week, and inviting you into.

Find the specific verse you have read but not yet obeyed. The quiet one. Today, do the small obedience it names. In the next hour. Not a feeling, not an impression — a verse, and the obedience He is working in you through it. Because that obedience is not your project. It is His finishing work in you.

Then tell one person. Say: “Scripture says ___, and here is the obedience He has begun in me.” One person. Today.

Then close the page.

With you on the journey,
Ryan

Which obedience already named in Scripture have you been treating as your project, when it is His finishing work in you?

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