Don’t question God just do it!!

For most people we question everything. We question if our politicians are for us or against us. We question on what diets actually work. We question if our boss is loosing it or if he or she is right on. Then it come down to God. How many of us question God? I know I have a few times. It’s hard not to sometimes. When He tells you to leavea job and go do something else. Or He tells us to go pray for some stranger or to something to that effect. We want to know for sure if it is God when we already know it is. We want to figure out the risks factors. Instead of just doing. Then we find ourselves missing out on what God wanted us to do, because we decided to think. If we look at Paul’s life. We find out that he doesn’t think. He just goes. If Jesus tells him to go. He goes. If Jesus tells him he’ll be ok. He doesn’t worry about it. He puts his full confidence and life in Jesus’ hands. In the end of Acts we get to see this in action. Paul is on his way to Rome. Jesus tells him that he will make it to Rome. So this hole trip he was calm. Even during the storm. You don’t hear him praying to God for help. You don’t hear fear in his speech. He tells everyone about the storm, and tells them no one was going to die. This scripture shows his confidence and what he has through Christ when he listens.

Acts 28: 3-6 MSG ^3-6Paul pitched in and helped. He had gathered up a bundle of sticks, but when he put it on the fire, a venomous snake, roused from its torpor by the heat, struck his hand and held on. Seeing the snake hanging from Paul’s hand like that, the natives jumped to the conclusion that he was a murderer getting his just deserts. Paul shook the snake off into the fire, none the worse for wear. They kept expecting him to drop dead, but when it was obvious he wasn’t going to, they jumped to the conclusion that he was a god!

 

Paul wasn’t afraid of dieing from the snake bite. He kept on going. He took Jesus’ word as it is. He said that he was going to make it to Rome alive and he didn’t question it. Even though there were storms all around him he kept going. Even though he was getting attacked by poisonous snake it didn’t matter. He knew when Jesus said something it was going to happen. No questions asked. So why do we question so much? Why do we wonder if we’re doing what God wants us to do? We need to stop listening to our own mind and start listening to God. When he says to jump we need to jump and not wonder what’s going to happen. We need to do what Paul did. Even Abraham didn’t question God when he was going to sacrifice his only son. Abraham told his other men that him and his son would be back. He took God’s word for what it was. God told him he was going to be a father of many nations. So he new that God wouldn’t let him hurt his son or He would raise his son from the dead. We need to let God’s word be alive in us. We need it to be the final word no matter what. If God told you tomorrow to give a 100.00 to someone. Just do it. Don’t think, but act. Let’s live a life totally for God. Let’s have our thoughts and actions totally from Him. No matter what it is.