Doing some working on our message for next week and God began to hit me with this notion that our delayed obedience to him is actually the same thing as direct disobedience. Many times we feel a prodding to do something on God's behalf. The problem is that we want to second guess and wait on everything. The result is that we end up in a state of delayed obedience to what God would have us doing.
Think about it like this.
If you tell your kid to do the dishes and they replied back Let me pray about that. Then they actually get to it in a few days. As a parent, you'd consider that your child was not being particularly obedient if they took 3 days to do something simple. I think for us as people, we need to be quicker to action. When God asks us to do something we ought to get at it. Our failure to act is disobedience pure and simple. I am glad we serve a God that has more patience than most of us as parents have.
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