Feb
4
Do
Filed Under Devotional
Things don’t get done unless people show up to do them. Tasks don’t get finished without actual hands and minds working on them, exerting effort, and completing them. Businesses don’t succeed without dedicated effort on the part of the staff. How many basketball games have you seen where a team loses a close game because nobody wants to do the work and take the risk to score? You get five professionals on the floor all hoping the other guy shoots. Games are lost when someone doesn’t step up.
I’ve been more and more convicted lately of the need to step up and get things done.
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.” Romans 12:1
I’ve always read this as a need to give everything to God. Today, I saw this as a call to give my actual, physical body to God. I read that as a call to do the practical and tangible things to serve God. It’s simply a command to DO.
Do you contemplate and meditate with the best of them? Fantastic! That is a necessary part of your walk. But, what’s the result? What’s the fruit? How do people know that you obedient to Jesus? If the results of your life don’t look any different, then you’ve missed the point.
Obedience is about action. Get out there and do!