So Christ isn't free to bless someone or perform a miracle in the absence of obedience?
what are you reading?
Then you’re reading selectively, for it also said “And His miracles may depend on our obedience.”
The purpose of the doodle was not to give an exhaustive list of what miracles are possible under different obedience scenarios, but rather that God ultimately requires obedience.
There are obviously some blessings dependent upon obedience (e.g. salvation itself), but there are some miracles God does in order to lead us to obedience while we are still disobedient (e.g. his calling and his gift of faith).
Did Jesus reveal himself to Paul on the road to Damascus because Paul was being obedient? Obviously not, for Paul was going around murdering Christians simply for their belief in Christ. So we can say that Paul was blessed with the gift of faith PRIOR to Paul's obedience.
Or, take my example – was I living a life in obedience to God the night in Oct 92 when I received the Holy Spirit? God knows I wasn’t.
Luke 5:23 “I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
