“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.” Psalm 32:8

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How many times has the Lord told us to go somewhere, speak to someone or do something? How many times have we obeyed?

“Go tell him I delight in him.” He’s probably going to think I’m weird, Lord, but ok.

“Go now and take his (my son’s) car.” Only to find out it was the only time in three weeks it had been parked there.

“Go knock on the bathroom, she is going to hang herself.” Only to discover in a journal years later that my daughter had intended to do just that.

“Go pray with her, ask her about her son.” What the Lord told a dear friend of mine to do before she even knew me, which led me on a journey of restoration and would enable me to help my son on his.

“Go pray with her and give her a reminder of who I am.” To obey–yet for it not to be received. But praise God, in His timing, He redeemed it.

“Go get intercessory prayer.” I went and was healed.

“Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this life” (Acts 5:20). This is what the angel of the Lord told the apostles to do after He opened the prison door and let them out. So they went and taught.

Sometimes God doesn’t send us a with pleasant message: “Go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate; and proclaim there the words that I will tell you, and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: ‘Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will tingle’” (Jeremiah 19:2-3).

But the message, its popularity, or even the recipient, isn’t the important part. This is the important part. When the high priest and those who had put them in prison questioned Peter and the other disciples about teaching again in the temple when they were told not to, they answered: “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).

When He tells us to go somewhere and speak to someone, or do something, do we go? My prayer is that we do.

Lord, please give us ears to hear and eyes to see. Give us discernment to hear Your voice and courage to act when You tell us to go. Amen.