Immediate Obedience
Sometime ago God said to me “I need you to do something”. I said to Him “Yes I will but I just need to do something first”. That was the warning sign that my relationship with God was not where it should be. When God gives you an instruction the natural response should be immediate obedience because that which God wants you to do is aimed at placing you in a certain position where God wants you to be. So when you delay you move away from God’s voice and it becomes difficult to hear him and thus give effect to his instructions. Now you find yourself vulnerable to attacks in the spiritual that eventually change your mind and place you in a position where you are no longer aligned to God’s will.
When you accept God into your life you die to yourself and a new man IN him is born. Therefore, it is important to live by the saying “none of me but all of you Lord” to show that God is in complete control in your life. For God to have complete control in your life you need to TRUST Him but to trust Him you need to LET GO of certain things that hinder your full commitment to God. It is with COMMITMENT that you are able to live according to God’s will and do what is pleasing to Him. An example of such commitment is Jesus Christ, God wanted him to give up his life for all of us and as you can imagine it couldn’t have been an easy thing to do but instead of backing down, He said to the Father ‘not my will, but your will.” (Mark 14:36 NLT). Through salvation we become Christ-like so we must also seek to give effect to God’s will and not our own. When we know who we are in God we will understand that his instructions/ commandments are not burdensome (1 John 5:3) and furthermore they are not beyond our reach (Deuteronomy 30:11). It is true that God will never place us in a situation that we cannot handle because and Philippians 2:13 reminds us that God gives us the DESIRE and the POWER to do what is pleasing to Him.
So next time God asks you to do something your response should be “I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands” (Psalm 119:60)
