Obedience - a word destined to elicit a whole bunch of feelings in people,

not usually positive ones! Nevertheless we’re called to obedience to Jesus.

Yet so often what obedience is and how it works has been misunderstood. For

many it seems impossibly onerous. But true obedience flows from intimacy

with God - the more we are connected to him, the more we necessarily follow

his guidance. So our prayer should be not ‘help me be more obedient’ but

‘help me be more connected’. As we draw closer to him, his commands stop

being burdensome.