Warning: Kind of heavy for a Saturday!

A little something happened today that took me out of my comfort zone. Don't you love it when that happens? Anyway, it's not a huge deal but it did involve me being convicted by the Holy Spirit and then being obedient. I'm not saying this to toot my own horn, but it did get me thinking about how often I'm NOT obedient.

You know, when you get that feeling in your stomach and you KNOW you should do something but you really don't want to. Then come the excuses.

I don't have time.

I can't really do it.

I'm not good enough.

Somebody else will/can/should do it instead.

Lord, You're not really that serious about this, are you?


Um, yea, He kinda is. Not that He's going to strike you down if you don't. (well, who knows. He could, I guess) But obedience is a big deal.

Obedience is certainly a big deal when you tell your daughter to clean her room and she doesn't do it. It's certainly a big deal when you tell your son not to hit his sister and he does it anyway. It's certainly a big deal when someone drinks alcohol, drives a car, has a wreck and kills someone.

So why do we think being disobedient to the God of the universe isn't a big deal? Maybe because He doesn't immediately come down from Heaven and put us in time-out? I don't really know the answer. I just know that I'm not as obedient as I should be.

Funny that this happened as I'm reading a book called A Life of Obedience (by Andrew Murray). Seriously. I couldn't make this stuff up.

So I don't have some huge revelation or three point sermon on the subject for you. Just a challenge, for you and for myself. Let's strive to be more in tune to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and what He's calling us to do, big and small.

And then let's just, in the words of Beth Moore, DO THE THING, y'all.