Dear Friend,

There was a time God gave me an instruction so wild, so disruptive, so unreasonable to my flesh that I genuinely paused and said:

“Wait, wait, wait maybe I heard wrong.
Maybe He meant a more reasonable version of what I think I heard.”

Because, surely God, the One who sees the beginning and the end, would have considered my emotions, my finances, my “PR”?He would never ask me to walk away from this now, when it just started to make sense, Right? Wrong.

That hesitation, that internal negotiation, that sacred attempt to adjust His word so it would be easier to obey That, my dear, was not wisdom. It was disobedience wearing logic like perfume.

THE TRAGEDY OF “ALMOST OBEYING”

You see, one of the greatest lies disobedience tells us is this: “If you obey the idea of what God said, it’s enough.”

So we tweak it. Delay it. Break it into stages. We soften it until it loses its weight.But ask King Saul what happens when you almost obey. He spared what was pleasing to the eye, not what was precious to God.

1 Samuel 15:9
“But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them.”

You know what he destroyed? The things he didn’t value He obeyed where it cost him nothing.

And when the prophet Samuel came, Saul proudly said:

“I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”

Bold lie. He thought partial obedience could still win him full favor.But heaven was not smiling.

1 Samuel 15:22
“To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.”

HOW WE DO IT NOW MODERN DAY SAULS

Today, we don’t spare kings and livestock.
We spare comfort. We spare timelines. We spare people’s opinions. We spare things we still secretly love.

God says “Leave the job.” You update your LinkedIn, but stay three more months for salary. God says “Cut off that relationship.” You mute them on Instagram but still reply DMs. God says “Fast and pray.” You fast food, but binge on podcasts.

You didn’t obey. You just edited divine instruction until it felt safe enough to perform.You are rearranging God’s blueprint.

BIBLICAL BLUEPRINTS PEOPLE EDITED

• Jonah: Called to Nineveh, ran to Tarshish. Result? A storm, a shipwreck, and a whale-sized reset.

• Moses: Struck the rock instead of speaking to it missed the promised land.

• Uzzah: Helped steady the ark his way died instantly.

• Ananias & Sapphira: Gave God an edited offering faced divine judgment.

  

   

Partial obedience is not just disobedience.
It’s rebellion in makeup.
It’s dishonor with lipstick.
It’s pride wearing God’s name

This is where you sit and ask yourself :

• Where have I obeyed God selectively and called it faith?

• What am I still holding on to that God asked me to surrender fully?

• Have I delayed an instruction and dressed it up as waiting on God?

• Am I trusting the wisdom of God or my ability to adjust His words?
  
  

DROP THE PEN

Obedience is not a suggestion box. You don’t get to add footnotes to what heaven has already signed off. When you edit the instruction, you change the outcome.

You forfeit the version of you that obedience was designed to birth. You delay the breakthrough because you modified the prerequisite.

The instruction may feel hard, but so is every construction. Especially when the foundation is divine.

So today, I want to say to the Saul in you: Stop adjusting. Stop sparing. Stop negotiating. Don’t just perform the idea of God’s will. Perform it fully. Perform it exactly. Perform it even when it breaks your logic.

Because obedience, full, wild, fast obedience is the only door to destiny that doesn’t expire.

Obedience is the key and one of the ways to stay with God.

See you next week .