To follow instructions may sound simple.
We just have to follow what is said or written and comply to it.
As much as it sounds that simple, yet it is not that easy to do.
Because when it comes to those instructions that we don’t like or don’t agree with, we will then have to deviate and do things to our own convenience.
In the 1st reading, the Lord God says this:
I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you. I lead you in the way you must go.
So, since it is the Lord God who is teaching and instructing us, then certainly we must obey and comply willingly.
But in the pages of the Bible are accounts after accounts of the People of God being unfaithful and turning away from God.
The consequence was misery and tragedy with misfortune upon misfortune.
The Lord our God reminds us of this:
If only you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a river, and your integrity like the waves of the sea.
To go our own ways and do things our way will only lead to disputes and division.
To obey God and follow His ways and do His will is to blessed with peace and happiness.
Let us be wise and choose what is right and good.