Luke 6:46 (MSG)
“Why are you so polite with me, always saying ‘Yes, sir,’ and ‘That’s right, sir,’ but never doing a thing I tell you?

Obedience is to hear or to listen in a state of submission, to hear God’s Word, and act accordingly. The word translated to obey in the Old Testament means “to hear” and our obedient response to God’s Word is a response of trust or faith. To hear God’s Word is to follow through and obey the instructions.
God requires us to trust and obey Him in everything, whether big or small as we hear His word from reading the scriptures, hearing from His servants, and directly from the Holy Spirit.
The Bible views disobedience as a failure to hear and do God’s Word in Psalm 81:11 and Jesus warns anyone who has ears to listen in Matthew 11:15.
Have you noticed that the first thing people do when you tell them “Do not” is to do exactly that, “do! The Bible’s greatest example of disobedience would be Adam and Eve’s experience in the Garden of Eden. Geneses 2 and 3 tell the story of Adam and Eve, and their fall into sin. In Chapter 2, God specifies certain simple instructions on what they may and may not do in the Garden, especially saying that they must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil because if they did, they will die, what did they do? Genesis 3:6 tells us they “did.”
We pray and ask God for things but when He gives us the instructions on what to do, we find it hard to obey either because we think it’s too easy, sounds silly, or just too unreasonable foolishness. The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned declares 1 Corinthians 2:14.
Do not look back lot’s wife was told in Genesis 19:26. She looked back!
God tells Moses to speak to the rock in Numbers 20:8 but instead, he strikes it twice.
The Lord sends Jonah to Nineveh, but Jonah heads off to Tarshish in 1:1-3.
Elisha instructs Naaman to go bathe in the Jordan seven times, he gets angry and storms away in 2 Kings 5:8.
Jesus tells Peter and his crew to cast their net again, Peter excuses why they shouldn’t in Luke 5:4-5.
Spiritual insight comes through obedience and a life of obedience to God is the fruit of faith according to James 2:21-26.
God promises to divinely guide us through whatever we need to do, and the strength to follow instructions comes from the Lord.
The Lord himself does not need sacrifices as seen in 1 Samuel 15:22, what He requires and accepts is obedience.
The simplicity of an instruction does not negate its power or effectiveness, doing what you’re told to do and when you’re meant to do it increases your faith and trust in the Lord- as you obey in simple instructions, He’ll trust you with bigger, and more complex instructions.
When the Lord tells us what He wants, He knows how we’ll respond but He still encourages us to try in Philippians 4:13, by depending on Him for the strength and ability.
No instruction is too hard, just obey and follow instructions!
Shalom