Embracing Total Obedience: Finishing the Year Strong

• By candidasullivan
• November 4, 2024
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The moment God puts something on my heart to do, the enemy jumps in with all the reasons why I shouldn’t. He has a ton of excuses.

Does this ever happen to you?

Yesterday, on my walk, God gave me two things to do every day to finish my year strong. It’s nothing new. God has put these things on my heart before, but I ignored them. Or I did them for a while and then quit.

Then, I would go right back into the cycle of asking God what I needed to do to be able to do His work and advance to the next level. I would become aggravated when I wasn’t making progress.

As I was walking and talking to the Lord, He laid it out for me. To do His work takes total obedience. It doesn’t matter if I like what He gives me to do. If I want to do this work with Him, I must do what He tells me to do.

At that moment, as I felt the Lord and the instruction with such clarity, I decided to do it. But as I tossed and turned last night, I tried to find a reason why I couldn’t.

In my flesh, I don’t want to walk five miles a day with the Lord and spend one hour writing every day. I don’t. My flesh is lazy. I keep telling myself I don’t have time for all of this. How can I possibly fit this in?

I’ll start on Monday, next week, or maybe next year.

But here’s the thing: I don’t have to do it. I can ignore the voice of the Lord and stay in pain. I can stay in my comfort for the rest of my life and never make any progress. I can give up my gifts and not be able to help anyone else.

Or, I can go all in. I can show up to write and walk with the Lord daily with gratitude that I “GET TO” do this.

Can you imagine how much better my life will be when I spend hours with the Lord each day? I can’t wait to see what the Lord does.

Do you want to finish this year strong? Ask God what you need to do.