Acts 22:10 “And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Get up and go on into Damascus, and there you will be told of all that has been appointed for you to do.’”

OBEDIENCE WIITHOUT DELAY

I love this story of Paul’s conversion.  He is on the way to Damascus to arrest and possibly kill more Christians and is struck blind by the Lord.  He quickly asks, “What shall I do, Lord?”  No hesitation.  He was ready to do whatever He asked.  Maybe he wanted his sight back so he was willing to do anything.  After all, Paul was human.  I am sure he didn’t want to remain blind.  But it took losing his sight for him to clearly see.

That was the beginning of Paul’s illustrious missionary journey.  From there he started preaching the good news of Jesus to the Gentile world.  God gave him his sight back and set him up for a lifetime of service to those he had previously spat upon.

TEACHING MOMENT     

Wouldn’t you love for your children to have immediate obedience to you?  What parent wouldn’t want that?  No more punishing for not cleaning their room.  No more nagging about taking the trash out or mowing the lawn.  Wouldn’t that be heaven?  Lol

But wouldn’t you rather have immediate obedience to God?  If that happened they would naturally obey you, right?  We teach and teach them to obey us when we should spend more time teaching them to obey God.  Unquestioned obedience is hard to teach.  But when they experience the joy and sometimes immediate blessing, they will learn to do just that.

The next time your child obeys you without question use this verse.  Show them how God desires us to obey Him in the same way.  He wants us to experience the joy He gives.

Today, will you obey without hesitation?  Will you just do what He says when He says in whatever way He says to do it?  Just do it!