WHEN OBEDIENCE IS TRULY DIFFICULT.

Sometimes God’s instructions could take on a daunting appearance and you are wondering, “how can these things be?”

In today’s post, we look at what you can do when you don’t know what to do and the task ahead seem insurmountable.

Nobody bounces out of the sitting room to go to the Cross, you must be going to the birthday party of your friend or a bestie.😄

To take a stride towards the Cross-kind of obedience, you must have visited a place called Gathsemane, sometimes sweated like blood and felt that reckless abandonment of friends you wished would be close enough to pray with you or simply understand.

My friends, do you have times in your lives where you truly find it too difficult to obey God?

Are there times when what God is saying to you seem impossible based on your current circumstances and abilities?

Then, please visit Gethsemane. It is in this place that all fleshly desires will burn out, all human logic melts away, and you are faced squarely with, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”

From the garden of Eden, God prophesied it, “the seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the serpent.” The Old Testament’s prophets confirmed it, but when our Lord Jesus (because he took on our humanity) came on the scene and faced the realities of the Cross, He turned to the Father, wishing there could be another way to pay for the sins of man.

“Father if it is your will, let this cup pass over me…..”

Is it different from the doubts in our hearts as well,

“Lord do I have to do it at all?”
“I don’t think I am the best man for this”
“Lord I know someone who can do this better than me”
“What if it doesn’t work?

But Jesus did something we must do when that obedience seem difficult,

“Speak to the Father, seek reinforcement- Gethsemane”

Nobody holds a meaningful conversation with the Father for “three hours” returns the same way…

Sometimes we need more than that 5minutes chitchat with God. Those kind of prayers where you enter with impossibility crowding your head, but you return with possibilities that have been confirmed.

Those kinds that make the doubt fly out through the window, that kind that makes you return in the power of the Lord, ready and willing to climb the Cross. The jeers of the crowd no more weary you, the questions of the high priest no longer frighten you, the sight of the nails no longer dismay you and the cross (obedience) is but a light burden to bear because you know that; He who endures the cross will of necessity touch Glory.

God’s glory.

Do you feel like the things God is calling you to are difficult to attain?

Go to Gethsemane.

If you find it difficult going to the Cross, why not take a detour to Gathsemane first?

Blessings.

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