Do you like to be told what to do? Do you obey commands from others? Are you willing to follow a good leader? If you are unwilling to follow human leaders and their commands, how can you follow God and his commands?
Following is not always easy. It is harder today than it has ever been. The average person is more educated than at any time in history. There is skepticism of many leaders due to the evidence accumulated on previous leaders of leading people astray.
However, not all of us can be a leader. We are not all called to be leaders. In fact, when there are multiple people vying to be leaders, the organization is divided or fractured. We must all be willing to follow our appointed leader, though not blinded, but with an attitude of submission and a desire to assist.
Saul is humbled by Jesus in his blindness. He had been unwilling to see God at work and follow Jesus. Ananias is hesitant to follow God’s command. He has heard of the terror Saul has reigned down on Jesus’s followers. However, God insists that Ananias go to Saul and be part of God’s healing of Saul’s blindness.
We, too, can be used by God in amazing ways. We must follow God’s call, even when it means getting outside our comfort zones. Remember, God will provide and protect so long as we are obedient.
I pray we all choose to follow God’s command. I pray we open our ears and hearts to hear God calling us. I pray each one of us will be an instrument of God’s work in this world, fulfilling his plan. Follow God’s command. Open your ears. Open your hearts. Be available to God. Be his instrument of work.
Acts 9:11a, 15 The Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul.”… But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;”
Marty Pressey 