Instant Obedience
"In the selfsame day, as God had said unto him" (Gen. 17:23).
Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Every time God calls us to any duty, He is offering to make a covenant with us; doing the duty is our part, and He will do His part in special blessing.The only way we can obey is to obey "in the selfsame day," as Abraham did. To be sure, we often postpone a duty and then later on do it as fully as we can. It is better to do this than not to do it at all. But it is then, at the best, only a crippled, disfigured, half-way sort of duty-doing; and a postponed duty never can bring the full blessing that God intended, and that it would have brought if done at the earliest possible moment.
It is a pity to rob ourselves, along with robbing God and others, by procrastination. "In the selfsame day" is the Genesis way of saying, "Do it now." --Messages for the Morning Watch
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The scripture said that Abram did as God had asked the same day. He did not take time to mull over the answer. He did not delay his response of obedience to initiate the negotiation process. He did not ask why. He simply obeyed.
The sooner we learn that delayed obedience is not truly obedience and that it robs us of blessings and hinders the movement of God in our lives, the sooner we will begin to walk in the full power of all that God has promised.
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| Dr. Rick Wallace |
It is when our response to God's command is simply, yes, that we will experience unparalleled power and advancement in the Kingdom.
When God says move, move. You don't need to know why. You don't need to rationalize it to get a better understanding, as if you would know better than God what is best. To me, one of the greatest advantages to being a believer here on earth, is that through complete surrender to God, He does all the thinking. All I have to do is show up and do as I am told and the victory is eminent. ~ Dr. Rick Wallace
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