Knowledge of God is foundational to obedience to God.

God desires obedience from His creation.  But many times as followers of God we can miss a crucial foundation  in obedience to God.  A knowledge of the person of God is foundational to pleasing, serving and obeying God.   Judges 2:7-11 depicts  the story of Israel two generations.  One generation knew God and His works and as a result served God ( vs 7).  Though they did not perfectly serve God they did serve only Him.   The following generation however did not know God or His works.  Their resulting actions were displeasing and evil in the sight of the Lord (vs 10-13).   They forgot the Lord and served false gods (3:7). The key to obedient pleasing lives was their knowledge of the person of God.  By knowing God and His works one generation  obeyed, served and enjoyed the blessing of God.   By forgetting God and His works one generation disobeyed, forsook God and His truth  and followed their own philosophy of "doing right in their own eyes"   (17:6, 21:25)   This path ended in God's judgment and religious and moral destruction. Our view of God affects our actions!   Generations later having received God's judgment in the Babylonian captivity Israel was determined to obey God and not be punished again.  Yet the Israel of Jesus day similarly did not know God.  They did not know God the Father or God the Son!  They had misplaced priorities.   A foundation in life without the knowledge of God leads to error either in idolatry or legalism.  We must make our pursuit to know God through His word!   As we know God we will then obey and properly serve Him!  A knowledge of the person of God is foundational to obedience to God. Are you seeking to obey and please God, whom you do not know?   Do you care about knowing and pleasing God?  Judges demonstrates the sad reality of lives lived without know and obeying God.  May we seek to know God and then serve Him!