And God said "Go"...

"Do"...and do not question. I think as a follower of Christ this is one of the most challenging things to do. To know when to just drop it all and follow God's call. In a split moment's notice do what you feel God just told you to do. The number one thing that prevents us from wanting to do this is our human minds. This is the moment we begin to play the "what if" game with God. However, when Jesus called Simon Peter in Matthew 4:19-20, He simply said "Come follow me..." and it says "at once" they left their nets and followed Jesus. They did not fast, they did not give it a few days in prayer, they did not go to 3 or 4 of their friends and ask if what they heard made sense (good thing too because most of our friends today would say NO that doesn't make sense)...they just heard Jesus and moved. In our minds today we feel like God would never call us to do something unless it made sense. Really? Because in the bible I read God called people all throughout the ages to do things that made no sense whatsoever. Abraham, go kill your ONLY son...yeah, the one I promised you I would give you. In our minds that would be considered murder...God would not call Abraham to murder, or sacrifice, his son. That's crazy. But The Lord brought him through it. And another time God tells Moses, "go tell Pharoh to let my people go". In the moment Moses could have said, I know this sounds like God, but there is no way God would have me do this. It's crazy, it goes against anything that makes sense...Pharoh could have me killed in a moments notice. God would not have me do this. But instead, Moses goes against all logic and acts upon what he heard from The Lord. And God brought him through it.

The reason these men, and others throughout the bible, were able to do things that made no logical sense is because they spent so much time getting close to God, that when they heard His voice they didn't have to question IF it was God, they just knew it was! So they had the confidence to move when God said "move". Everything we do to get closer to God is so we can be so in tuned with Him, that when we hear Him say to do something, we are just obedient and we do it. THEN.....we act shocked when the enemy comes up against us. Why in the world would we be shocked that the enemy would try to convince us that this can't be God? There is no doubt that both Abraham and Moses had to have been thinking the entire time they were walking to their destinations that this is crazy. Both men were probably doing what we do...saying things like "God, give me another sign, just one more so I will know this is you". And they probably would have gotten the same answer we do, when we hear God say "If you and I are as close as we should be, you will already know this is Me. And if you didn't believe it was Me to begin with, you wouldn't have started this walk to your destination. So just be still and continue down the path I sent you on."

Going back to Simon Peter again, not only did Jesus simply say follow me....He said drop what you are doing and follow me at a time when they had just received the biggest catch of their careers as fisherman. So again, don't ever stop and think that it doesn't make sense at this time in my life that God would call me to do this. He got me where I am, why would he send me in a different direction now. Why....because He is God and His ways are not our ways....His thoughts are not our thoughts. His purpose for our lives may not be logical, rational or even understandable at times....but I guarantee you they are far more meaningful than anything we could set our own minds to. That is my faith, and it is my prayer that He will continue to grow me in that faith. I want to always be ready to drop anything and everything to "Go" wherever God calls me to go.