As children of God we must practice obedience. Walking in obedience, according to God’s will, is like a muscle that must be exercised in order for it to be strengthened. The way that we strengthen that muscle is through living according to God’s Word and obeying His Spirit.
We don’t obey God because we have to even though sometimes it comes down to that. We obey God because we love Him and want to honor Him and have a good relationship with Him. We are also a reflection of His name, we represent Him, and because of that we should want to honor God with our words, actions, and attitude.
As parents we are called to teach our kids how to obey. We do this through modeling obedience in our own personal life and through parenting our kids according to God’s Word. Something we tell our kids, when you obey us you are obeying God. The things that we are telling you to do are not things we’ve made up or things we “feel” like you should know or do but they are instructions provided to us through God’s Word. We tell them this so that one day, when they are grown they will lean on God and His truth for guidance.