The moment you think
you have heard from God, act upon it decidedly.
You may be mistaken but the Lord will honor your faith and make even
your error work for good. Our problem generally
is not our false interpretation of God's directive but rather our rebellious
waffling on the point of action. We see
everything else so clearly...the troubles we face, the insults we endure, the
lost opportunity and the baseness of co-workers but do we see the way we react
to the Word God gives us? Do we notice
how faithfully He guides us or are we blindly moving forward without a care? The Lord will show you the way but only as
you adapt to His guidance will you see more.
If you haven't heard from the Lord, then return to the last place you
strayed from His prod and start over there.
Do the thing He told you to do and renew your commitment to follow God
wholeheartedly. Everything went haywire
for Abraham the minute he gave in to Sarah's demand that he produce a child
through Hagar her slave. The harshness
of the demand that Abraham send off Hagar and his son Ishmael was the
correction Abraham had to make to be certain the Lord was his one and only
God. Is it stunning that Abraham had to
act upon Sarah's childish demand for Abraham to get rid of Hagar and Ishmael if
he was to get back to where God wanted him before he submitted to her whim the
first time? Give in once to the
temptation to follow along a line other than the clear one God has given you
and the correction may be brutally painful and seem absurdly unfair...and yet
it must be done. In faith we stay on the
narrow path God lays out for us and in faith we return to it when we grasp the
immensity of our deviation from it. Once
we have accepted the correction and done so decidedly, the way of God becomes
clear and bright. Never be afraid to
follow God wholly; be scared to death though of disregarding His certain
command. You may be kept from disaster
by God's grace but there will be a cost in the end, one that did not have to be
before you strayed.
The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it
concerned his son. But God said to him,
"Do not be so distressed…"
Genesis 21: 11,12a NIV
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