When man fails to do what God wants of him, then it is indeed disobedience. Maybe the Lord has been impressing it on your heart to go ahead and start that business, that ministry, to write that book, that blog, to apply for that house, to go and bless a sister or a brother but because you don't know how it is going to turn out you keep putting it off and putting it in the back. Days, weeks, months, years has passed since the Lord impressed on your heart what He wants you to do. When last have you given it a thought?
In 1 Samuel 15, we see the account of Saul, when God instructed him that he and the people of Israel were to go to battle with the Amalekites. Saul was told that he should go and completely destroy the entire nation of the Amalekites; men, women, cattle, oxen... and just about everything. He must NOT leave "no stone on-turned." But, when Saul mobilized his army and they went up to battle, he butchered/ killed all the Amalekites and captured Agag the king of the Amalekites. It didn't stop there! Saul and his men kept back the best of the sheep and oxen and the fattest of the lambs and just about everything that caught their attention. They only destroyed what was worthless or of poor quality. Because of Saul's disobedience the Lord told him that He would take the kingdom away from him. That was the result of Saul's disobedience.
I want to say to us that, the sin of disobedience stops the flow of our blessings in our lives. Many times we wonder why some of the things God has spoken has not yet bloomed or has not yet come alive in our lives. Sometimes we also question ourselves as to whether or not the prophetic words spoken over your lives were indeed a lie or if God had spoken for real.
But, it is time for us to ask ourselves what is it that God has told me to do that i have not yet done? It is time for us to also ask ourselves what has God said that i chose not to do because it is not what i want to do? Let me remind us that half obedience is still disobedience.
God is waiting on us to keep our end of the bargain! Many times we say, God if You do this, then I will do that... and even right now, God is still waiting on us to do our part. Some of the blessings that the Lord has in store for us, He is waiting on us to do what He has commanded, so he can release them into our hands.
Let us not allow our blessings to be with-held or the source of our blessing to dry up as that tree because we have become disobedient unto the Lord.
God bless you richly! I hope this was a blessing to your heart and if it had, then share it with someone else so they too can be blessed.
