What is it for you?

Have you ever started to go do something and then got distracted by something else?

For example, I can pick up the laundry hamper and go in to start a load of laundry and then see something along the way that needs picked up. I’ll put down the hamper, pick up a random item, put that away, notice the trash needs emptying, go wash my hands, clean off the counters, which can lead to restocking paper products, vacuuming, picking up a random item, etc. until I realize I haven’t started the laundry. Have I mentioned before I can have a squirrel moment? I’m blaming it on menopause!

Now, I could argue that all the things I found to occupy my time were worthwhile, and I was accomplishing things that needed to get done, however, the task I had originally prompted myself to do was neglected by distractions.

The Holy Spirit has been prompting me that I have been practicing this same technique in another area. For quite some time, I’ve felt the Holy Spirit prompting me to write/blog again. Now, in total transparency, I have been writing and journaling, I just haven’t posted anything.

I could give a plethora of excuses for not listening to this.

Doesn’t matter if I’ve put other “good” things in place to justify or pacify the disobedience. Disobedience is what it has been. I was neglecting a prompting that I was hearing. Any distractions, whether worthwhile or not, didn’t make me any less disobedient, or without sin. Can’t blame that on menopause! What sinful natures we are, and thanks be to God, there is a cure for that!

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9

A confessed sin is forgiven, removed and forgotten! I can step forward in obedience, trusting in Him for the strength and guidance for the task He calls me to.

How gracious and loving our God is! Jesus cares about every bit of me! And He cares about every bit of you!

He cared enough to die on the Cross for all our sins! We just need to seek Him and surrender to Him.

The power and the magnitude of the Cross is that Jesus died for all who come to Him and surrender to Him!

“There is no one righteous, not even one,” Rom. 3:10

“For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” Rom 3:23,24

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16,17

Have you surrendered your life to Jesus? Or are you trying to do it on your own?

What decision are you putting off because you’re waiting for the right time, the right knowledge, or experience, the right sign, or you’ve been distracted from?

What are you putting in place of being obedient to the stirring that you’re feeling in your heart right now?

What is God calling or asking you to be obedient about right now?

Whether it seems big or small to you – what is that stirring in your heart?

What is it for you?