What does obedience look like
World perception: If you are in a store, or a bank and someone comes in to rob the place using a gun, The moment they say to put your hands up in the air, unless you're feeling very very very brave, your hands immediately go up in the air and an act of surrender. You obedience was that you followed the command of putting your hands in the air immediately without second thought. You had a true fear that if you did not put your hands up consequences would be more than likely manifesting in the realm of physical harm. So beatings in a worldly perception is that in this scenario, your hands immediately go up in the air as an act of surrender. Biblical perspective: If there's a specific verse that tells you to do something, or instructs you NOT to do something, you are supposed to immediately act upon it. That will look like anything from: writing the verse down, doing a complete word study on the aspect of scripture that God has placed on your heart, doing a theme study in line with what God has placed on your heart, or any of those aspects of digging into the word so that you know fully what God is trying to get across to you. Years ago I asked God what he wanted me to do when I recommitted my life completely and fully to following him instead of being half into the world and half into being a Christian. He placed on my heart Matthew 6:33. Now here's the thing that took place, I opened my Bible read the verse, said to myself okay I understand. At that point put the Bible away and I went about my day. But God knew that I didn't fully understand the message He was trying to convey, because they're very next day one of the Christian brothers in a Bible study that I attended mentioned Matthew 6:33 and Holy Spirit plucked my heartstring as a way to get my attention for me to go study that verse. What I actually did though in that second time of looking up the verse is that I looked up the verse I looked up two words in the verse and thought that that was sufficient. However, God saw it in a different perspective. So being that I still did not get the message that God was trying to get on to my heart, the next Sunday that I went to church the entire message was about Matthew 6:33.