Focused Obedience

Number 3, focused obedience. My ears perked up as the pastor listed the things needed to finish strong. Per usual the words he was speaking came for my neck and I was officially throat checked. He asked the questions, can you obey without clarity? Can you walk without knowing? Can you surrender? Can you keep your eyes on Jesus? I wrote down these questions as I asked them to myself. Truth is I was struggling to do all four. For the last couple of weeks, I felt like a juggler in the Circus du Soleil, and not a good one. In a previous season, God had taught me about carrying only what he had given me. I had lessons on being Mary instead of Martha. He has also taught me about knowing my capacity. His most recent lesson was, Just because someone fixes you a plate doesn’t mean you have to eat it.

Despite all of these lessons, I found myself in a familiar head space. I was carrying everyone and everything. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why I was feeling overwhelmed and anxious. I threw it off as if it was the tasks God had assigned me to do that was causing it. It had to be, right? No, not so. I began to go back to the last instructions He gave me. I meditated on the scriptures He attached. I reached out for wise counsel and prayer. All to reveal that those ”good” things and close people that I had picked up was the issue. They had somehow found a way onto my plate. Because it was family and friends that “needed” help, I intervened.

I put myself in their situations causing the work I needed to be doing to lose my attention.

So now here are those questions again; Can I be obedient enough to mind the business God gave me, even if I don’t know why? Meaning, my posture in this season is not to run to everyone’s rescue as if I am the fourth part of the Trinity. I have to trust God ,even when I don’t understand. I have to eat only what He puts on my plate. Can I move forward in the things God has called me to without knowing who will stick it out with me; without knowing what’s the next step before I finish the one I am currently in; without knowing how others feel about my journey? Can I surrender all of these things and leave the outcome in Jesus’ hand? Can I just take the wisdom given to me in previous seasons and grow in that? I had a decision to make. I chose to finish strong and grow with focused obedience. I am reminded of the words my pastor said: If the devil can’t destroy you, he’ll distract you. Distraction is the slow death of destinies.

I'm choosing growth, I’m choosing to finish strong, I'm choosing focused obedience.

Meditate on Hebrew 11:8 this week, putting yourself in remembrance of what obedience brings from our faithful God.

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