What now?

"Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the things that lie before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next."

- Elisabeth Elliot (Quest for Love: True Stories of Passion & Purity)

Some may have found themselves praying ardently for true love and happiness in their future marriage life. Yet, they carelessly throw their pearls to pigs and give to dogs what is sacred (Matthew 7:6), in their foolish thought that what they do now will not affect their future, and that "they can always change down the road." But how can we even pray and believe God to provide His best in our future happiness if we do not give reverence to Him with what we do now? How many do still carelessly "play around" with "love"? The Lord's charge in us is NOT to awaken love until it is time (Song of Solomon 2:7). Are you taking this charge by heart?

We can never please or impress the Lord with our "ministry" if the life we are living is far from it. As 1 Samuel 15:22 says, "Obedience is better than sacrifice."

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