Obedience To Strange Instructions
STRANGE INSTRUCTIONS
And this is love: that we walk in obedience to His commands..2 John 1:6
A distinguished Indian evangelist named Sadhu Chellappa was on a mission trip to a village north of Madras, when in the middle of the night he suddenly sensed God speaking to him: “Leave this house quickly and run away!” That was not exactly a convenient thing to do. But Chellappa was accustomed to accepting even strange instructions from the Lord without argument, so he dressed quickly and ran into the darkness.
After a while, he was in the open country. As he passed beneath a large tree, he felt God tell him, “Stay here and start preaching!” Now, even for an experienced evangelist, this was puzzling – because there was no one there to preach to. Why did God want him to preach to an empty field in the middle of the night? But he stopped under the tree and began preaching the gospel.
Finally, he reached the point at which he called on his unseen listeners to give their lives to Jesus. He was surprised to hear a voice from the top of the tree and see a man climb down, crying. The man tearfully gave his life to Jesus. When Chellappa asked why he was in a tree out in the middle of nowhere, the man admitted, “I came here to hang myself.”
How is your obedience quotient? God calls us to be obedient to that still small voice inside that can direct us to do what God wants us to do. Jesus was obedient in all things. “For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19). God can do exceedingly great things through one man or one woman who is willing to be obedient to His voice.
Prayer: Ask for His grace today to be obedient to His voice.
Scriptural Reading: 2 John 1:4-12
Obedience To Strange Instructions
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