Just do it

I have realized that I too often use 2 excuses why I don't do something to serve God.

1. I don't know what it is exactly God wants me to do

2. I can not be sure my heart is in the right place to do whatever it is.

But I have come to realize that these are ONLY excuses and nothing else. They are not legitimate in most cases if at all. I'll tackle the first one first because I think many people find it hard to hear God's voice and hence his plan or purpose for our lives. Most of the time when I think about this, it is usually in regard to my future or career plans and what I can do in long term to serve God. But not all of us are called to be preachers or missionaries. Some of you have heard the saying, "Be a missionary in disguise as a teacher, if you want to teach." Obviously you would fill in "teacher" with your occupation. Anyways I have heard this many times and it makes very good sense. But also we do know what God wants us to do:
1. Love God, love others

2. Tell others about hope in Jesus Christ.

3. Pray for each other.

4. Disciple others to grow further in their faith.

5. And probably read your Bible I think this is important and may go with "Love God" but anyways.


We may not know whether or not God is telling us to take that job promotion or change our major or move somewhere else to do mission work. But right now, we can be doing all these things and trust that God will open up our minds for even more clarity in his plan for us. If I constantly keep worrying about whether or not God wants me to do something, most likely I am not focusing on the other things and am blinded by what God wants me to do right now.

The other day I was walking to class and I saw this lady come out of Walgreens and she was crying as she entered her car. I did not know this person or why she was crying, but I continued to walk to class. It wasn't until I got to class that I realized what I could do for her. Simply pray for her. So I did, see I was probably too distracted at first with my own schedule and my own list of things to do, that I did not hear the Spirit tell me to pray for her. I will most likely not see her again, and if I did I would not know she was the same person, but God is big and maybe just maybe my prayer can be used for the kingdom. You see that day, maybe my purpose in that instance was to be there to see her and pray for her, I'll never know but God tells us to intercede for others so it is most likely good that I prayed.


The second excuse is another one that I personally use too often. But after thinking about this I learned that our hearts will hardly ever be the right place completely. We are all human and as such our motives will be faulty and wrongly placed.

Also, if we still keep being obedient to God's work serve Him regardless of our motives then I believe God will still use it for his kingdom. In addition to your work still being used for the kingdom, God will reward you for your service and eventually he can work in your heart and make it more pure. I firmly believe God can change our hearts and believe he has already. So in other words when it comes to serving God, we need to just do it. Our hearts don't have to be in the right place necessarily to bring the kingdom of God.

God's Love

Today God reminded me how much he loves me. It wasn't from anything anybody told me today or even something from prayer. God just moved into my heart.

I was sitting there in church thinking about how I could reach out to my friends that do not yet know of God's love. This was spurred by the many confessions of Joe Boyd had for the church. It just really got to me that as a church we don't go out of our way often to reach others and touch their lives with the love of Christ. Yes you can say by loving them we earn the right to be heard, to eventually speak to them about Jesus. But I feel like this is just used too much as an excuse to not be bold enough with proclaiming the gospel by to many people including myself. But this is not really why I am writing this post, this is just the means of how I was touched by the Spirit of the living God today.

So I was thinking about how I would improve my boldness and what I could say to the people in my life that don't yet know about Jesus. And God just very plainly said "You know how much I love you and love them, so just tell them. " I then tried to wrap my very diminutive mind around the love of God and I just could not handle it.

My mouth got dry, my heart raced and I just felt this overwhelming embrace. And then I started to weep. Right there, during the middle of service. In fact, right now as I am reflecting on this, I can barely hold back the tears.

Now, if you know me you know I don't cry often at all. I can probably count on my hand the number of times I have cried. But I had no control over this.

This was an important thing that happened to me today. Simply because I have felt for a long time that I have been seeking the Lord and have not really heard Him or felt Him really move into my heart. In no way am I blaming Him for this. I most likely have not been looking in the right places or listening to Him. I try to learn more of Jesus and read about Him but nothing comes close to feeling simple, yet complex, immeasurable way that our God loves us.

If I could only put into words.