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G. John White's first devotional Sold out for Jesus covers 12 vital themes of Christianity.
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January Topic: OBEDIENCE IS GREATER THAN SACRIFICE |
Of all the things I have had to learn over the length of my lifetime - this is the most important. If we don't get this right, the rest is impossible. So let's spend this first month of the year getting our priorities in the correct order. |
Joshua 3:13
AS SOON AS THE PRIESTS ... SET FOOT IN THE JORDAN
That's the funny thing about obedience. You actually have to do it. You can dream dreams. You can make all the plans you like. You can say you "heard from God". You can claim to be a prophet. You can say all the "right" things and sound very pious. You can be the chief advisor, apostle, pastor or whatever. You can have all the "right priorities" but if you don't "do it" it remains disobedience in any language!
The priests could have said - "Okay we're the leaders follow us", and when they got to the river's edge - "Okay you go over and God will make it dry for you". How often as religious leaders, that in essence, is exactly what we've done because we didn't want to get "our feet wet".
Nor did the priests walk to the waters edge and say "Okay God, we've come this far in obedience, please dry this river up now" or "Okay God, but what's the difference? Why can't you dry it up, without us having to look silly walking into a river? Remember we are carrying Your Ark - Your Presence. Surely you don't really need or want us to get wet do you?"
No wonder Isaiah records "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways" declares the Lord.
What are you facing right now which requires that step of obedience? What question are you asking God so you can get out of it maybe? Can I encourage you to be a priest?
Don't put off what God has said. Don't try and rationalise it. Just do it! Sooner or later you are going to have to do it, so if the time is right, do it now, don't put it off. You won't "look silly", because, just as the priests found - as soon as their feet TOUCHED the water's edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing.
Just imagine being one of those priests. You wouldn't have missed the experience for all the world.
What about you? Go do it and don't miss the experience God has planned for you.
He who would see a miracle MUST SET HIS FOOT INTO THE JORDAN!
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