Love Made Visible: Why Obedience Is Evidence of Our Love for God - Ep 50

What does obedience actually have to do with loving God? Is obedience a way of earning God's love—or is it the evidence of a love and trust that already exist?

In this episode of Milk to Meat, we explore why Scripture consistently connects love for God with obedience. Love is an inward reality, but obedience gives that love an outward expression. As 1 John 5:3 tells us, love for God leads us to keep His commands. The direction matters: love produces obedience; obedience does not earn love.

We trace that truth through the larger story of redemption, beginning in the Garden, where humanity's disobedience reveals a failure to trust God's wisdom and goodness. Then we turn to Jesus—the obedient Son who reverses Adam's rebellion. Where humanity chooses its own will, Jesus declares, “Not my will, but yours be done.” His obedience carries Him all the way to the cross and through death into resurrection.

Finally, we examine why obedience isn't opposed to grace but is actually the fruit of grace. God loves, gives, rescues, and reconciles us. We receive, trust, obey, and are transformed. We don't obey so that God will love us. We obey because we have been loved.