“Obedience turns two-dimensional knowledge into three-dimensional experience.” Mark Batterson from his book PRIMAL. If you are struggling to know if God is leading you to do something, how about just doing something. So many people wander around like the Israelites in the wilderness because they are too scared of the unknown element of immediate obedience. It seems that the “what ifs” get exaggerated so much that by the time we even think we could, for example, say that bold statement to defend God’s word in a conversation that we are convinced the other party is going to be calling a mental institution to pick us up because we must be crazy. Our hesitation invites complication in the form of dissection of the prompting, which equals zero impact. Last time I checked, zero impact was the opposite of what God wanted to have produced in our lives. Imagine the great commission if it were communicated in that light… “Go, therefore, when you are sure that I am telling you to go, and you are convinced that it is not just a voice in your head telling you to do something that scripture clearly supports…” Not a lot of going at that point I imagine. Batterson also wrote, “don’t let doing what you can’t do keep you from doing what you can.” Is God prompting you to act? If you struggle with recognizing if He is, I think it is likely because you have formed a habit of delaying your response. Maybe you should try acting immediately and see what God does in that situation. Even if it turns out that you conjured up the action in your mind, if what you do is in alignment with scripture, you still make an impact for God in some capacity. Trust the new heart and spirit that God put in you when he took your heart of stone and trust that He is able to work through your immediate obedience in faith more than your logical deduction of the possibilities.
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn hearts and give you obedient hearts.” Ezekiel 36:26, God’s Word Translation.
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