do it already!!!

sooo, i made my way to st. arbucks this morning and enjoyed a venti non-fat caramel macchiato…while reading through day four of week three, in pure praise…this, in coalition with studying jonah for the last two weeks in GPS (our mid-sized journey community at church)…everything seemed to be just fine…this mornings study was very good, especially the “daily surrender” at the end…

Ask God what you need to do to be more obedient to him. Willingly submit to whatever he tells you to do. (pg. 51)

then i packed up and made my way out to the car, heading to work…on my way to work, God told me to do something(i’m not sharing what it was, just because i don’t want people to think i’m tooooting my own horn)…this thing that God told me to do was nothing major…but definitely not in my plans for the morning…i needed to drop of the mail and then get to work…i didn’t have time to do what He told me to do…i had a couple other justifications brewing in my  head shaved head, as well…

sooo, i kept driving to work…heading to the post office…i stopped to drop my mail in the box along side of the road, which was almost completely covered in snow…and there was a line…as i waited…conviction just started coming all over me…i was reminded of jonah RUNNING in the opposite direction of what God told him to do…i was reminded of my “daily surrender”…then i made it up to the box and dropped the mail in…

two stoplights later, and now within two blocks of work, i hung a left and gave in to what God had told me to go do…i wasn’t exactly “willingly” submitting…but once i did what God had told me to do it was like this HUGE relief…i was energized more by doing what God told me to do, than by the venti non-fat caramel macchiato that i drank…

but why do i go through this type of a process when God tells me to do something??? am i the only one that does this??? or maybe the only one besides jonah…why don’t i just…

do it already!!!