Not Obedience but Devotion

Not obedience but devotion. Obedience certainly ought to be woven into our response to and relationship with God. Yet God calls us not to obedience but to devotion. God comes to us in Christ to secure not our obedience but our devotion. Obedience involves only a part of ourselves. Devotion involves the whole self. Devotion bespeaks the relation of being to Being, of person to Person. Devotion constitutes our truest, fullest, highest response to God.