Keep Walking — The Call To Unbroken Union With Jesus

Why Spiritual Attacks Cannot Stop You, But Disobedience Can

Dec 02, 2025

Obedience is the real test of our faith.

All the problems and spiritual attacks in the world cannot and will not separate us from Jesus. They do not have the authority, power, or spiritual resolve to wear us down enough to pull us from our life-giving relationship with the Lord.

The choice to obey the Master separates those who walk with Him from those who pause along the pathway to promise.

Jesus has created a road for you to walk. It is a path that ultimately leads to greater intimacy and communion with Him, and those who walk the path also inherit the promises of God. We fully realize the reward of our faith when we follow Jesus in complete obedience.

The enemy of our souls only needs to place something in front of us that makes us pause on our walk. Many will never step into overt sin or wander away from the Lord in their belief about who He is. However, these same individuals, if they simply pause along the road and stop fully following Jesus, will find themselves in a place where the Lord used to be, but is no longer.

Jesus is always moving, walking, and leading. He is on a journey to take us to the place of promise and obedience He created for us. When we stop obeying Him, even if it is slight, it breaks our union with Him.

All disobedience to Jesus is sin. Sin separates us from God.

Jesus clears the confusion when He states in the book of John 14:15 NKJV, “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” It really is that simple.

What separates those who fully inherit the promises of God from those who do not is their willingness to love Him in obedience. This is the test of our love.

The book of Hebrews gives a clear picture of this idea of separation by disobedience.

Hebrews 4:1-11 NKJV—Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. [2] For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. [3] For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest,’” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. [4] For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; [5] and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” [6] Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, [7] again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.” [8] For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. [9] There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. [10] For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. [11] Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.

Friend, Jesus desires so deeply to walk with you. He wants you to abide and live in His tangible presence. For this to be the reality of your life, obedience is the requirement. Again I say, disobedience in its simplest form is just pausing along the way while the Lord continues to walk on.

Disobedience causes you to live where God was, instead of living where He is.

Often, we are fooled by the memory of how God delivered us or brought us through our troubles, and we pause for reflection, holding those places as the high-water mark of God’s work in our lives. All the while, Jesus declares and yearns to lead us into more, greater, and deeper places of intimacy in His presence.

We find, then, that obedience is much less of a list of commands and much more of an intimate walk with the One who loves us and takes the time to extend His presence into our lives.

Jesus never leaves us.

When we feel distant, it is because we paused along the way.

My prayer is that you stop viewing obedience to Christ as a legalistic ritual that you can check off a list. Obedience is the highest privilege of any relationship. When we obey the spoken or unspoken expectations in a relationship, trust is formed. This trust leads to deeper intimacy and the privilege of knowing the One we are in relationship with.

Obviously, I am not saying that all the expectations that come from earthly relationships are always correct. Some have found themselves in toxic or harmful relationships with wrong, ungodly, and hurtful expectations.

But the relationship we have with Jesus is built upon His perfect love and His perfect expectations. What He expects of us leads us to the highest version of ourselves. He is always seeking to implant His will into our hearts, which the Bible calls “good, pleasing, and perfect.” (Romans 12:2)

Friend, there is something good the Lord is pursuing in your life.

Follow Him with abandon and obedience and see if you don’t find the deepest yearning of your heart fulfilled in Him.

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