Obedience Is Good - The One Year Mother-Daughter Devo
Obedience Is Good
Bible Blast: Read Colossians 2:6-8
Just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Colossians 2:6
We had just entered Kruger National Park, one of Africa’s best safari destinations. Nearly five million acres of lions, elephants, zebras, giraffes, and more awaited the Gresh family. We couldn’t wait to get to our campsite. Maybe that’s why my husband, Bob, was driving a little fast on the dirt road. Suddenly we hit a bump so hard that my head clunked the roof of our Land Rover.
“Cool!” beamed Rob from the backseat.
“Hmmm. Not so cool,” said Bob. “Actually, it’s kind of getting hot.”
A needle on the car’s dashboard told Bob that the car was almost instantly overheating. Whatever had happened under our feet wasn’t good. We got about a mile further, and then the car just shut down.
We were in the middle of wild Africa, and the signs just outside the park said, “Stay in your vehicle at all times.” So we stayed in the car, as the temperature in it was rising. We called our campsite, but the others in our group never picked up. We waited for almost an hour, and no one drove by.
“I’m getting out. I’ll walk to the nearest camp,” said Bob.
“No,” I begged him to stay. “We have to obey those signs. Someone will find us.”
Finally, a man did drive by. He was the repairman coming to fix the phone at our campsite! He could drive us right to it, and he did.
Later we found out how wise it had been that we’d obeyed the signs. A hungry lion had been spotted near the place we’d broken down just that morning. Bob would have been in terrible danger if he’d have walked off on his own. We learned that day that obedience is good.
Just like those signs were there to protect us, God’s rules—and your parents’ rules—are for your protection. Obedience is always good, even if it is hard.
Girl Gab: Daughter, pick one family rule that is hard for you to obey—maybe cleaning your room every Saturday or not walking to the nearby gas station alone. Tell your mom why you don’t like that rule. Mom, explain to your daughter how that rule is meant to keep her safe.
