It’s time for another Faithful Friday Encouragement! As you read ponder these questions: Are there tasks that you consider more important than another? What is a step of obedience needed to be taken in order to obey the Lord?
Recently I have been trying to sit down and write on my projects for at least an hour a day, for six days a week. This week I haven’t worked on my projects at all. Why you may ask? Because the Lord keeps reminding me of things like housework, and exercising that I have neglected. Sometimes I see writing as a calling to obey from the Lord, so sometimes the laundry, or exercising gets ignored. But the truth is, as a writer I spend way too much time sitting or getting lazy. Sure I could sit and watch a movie and claim it was family time, but still other things need my attention when I spend time scrolling on social media.
The thing is, if the Lord had told me, “Time to do laundry, or exercise.” The Lord has been reminding me, that I would have done so. Making it a priority even. How shall I continue to stay fit for doing the tasks the Lord asks of me, if I neglect the health of my body? How shall the Lord trust me as He sees fit with more even, if I don’t take care of what He’s already given. Do I really need a command to clean, or is that an excuse to ignore what needs to be done?
This morning 11/23/23 I had part of a dream that I feel led to share:
I was staying at this lake. The Lord commanded me to go down to this lake and ring the bell. I went assuming that people would arrive and maybe the Gospel would be shared. The thing is I went and rang the bell, but I waited and no one showed up.
The scene changed , and I was in a church classroom with people. I told them what happened. Someone spoke up, “I heard the bell, but I never made it down there.”
It was then that I was reminded to be obedient to anything the Lord said , no matter the results. He was seeing if I would obey, nothing more.
Jesus said in Luke Chapter 6:46-49
Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say? 47 Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words and does them, I will show you who he is like. 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock. 49 But he who hears and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”
We are told in James Chapter 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Sin doesn’t always have to be stealing, lying, or the bad stuff. If we are Christ Followers and we know our relationship with Him is vitality important, would neglecting prayer and reading His Word be sin?
We are servants of the Master, our God, Lord, and King . Should we not ask Him how we should spend our days using the breath He gives us? Will we not seek to prepare ourselves each day, to prioritize those things that are important, even when they seem irrelevant to whatever we deem as the Lord’s calling for our lives?
I ask again what step of obedience do we need to take today to honor our Lord and King?
*All Scripture is from the World English Bible