I must confess: I need to move beyond knowing, into obeying

My life has been busy, busy, busy lately. Rush to class, rush home, rush to job interview, rush to church, rush to this, rush to that, always late, always hurrying, never enough time to get anything done. Have I mentioned that I have been busy? In the midst of the busyness it has been increasingly common for me to rationalize my shortcomings. Check out this excerpt I found in my inbox this week thanks to FamilyLife's Moments with You newsletter.

Our lives are made up of choices—difficult forks in the road where we must decide to choose God’s way or to pursue our own. And as Moses said to the children of Israel, the choice is really not between right and wrong but between life and death (see Deuteronomy 30:15-16). The prophet Amos said it very succinctly: “Seek the LORD that you may live” (Amos 5:6). Truly, the only sure path to life is found in obedience to God and His Word.

So when you don’t feel like loving your spouse, obey God.
When you’re tempted to steal or to compromise your integrity, obey God.
When your boss asks you to do something you shouldn’t, obey God.
When your lusts and passions are telling you to give in, obey God.
When you’re suffering and feel like quitting, obey God.
When the easiest thing to do is nothing, obey God.
When you feel like being lazy, obey God.
Whatever choice you may be facing, obey God . . . and live!

Thomas Carlisle wrote, “Conviction, be it ever so excellent, is worthless until it converts itself into conduct.” It is not enough just to know what’s right.

I am standing at a fork in the road. I have a choice to make. A very big choice, technically I had to make a very big choice in January now I am re-evaluating said choice. I think God is telling me it is time to stop following the world and to start following Him, to stop worrying, and to start trusting. I am going to take a leap of faith and obey God. I am going to apply what I have been reading in the Bible to my life here on earth, even if it doesn't make sense to anyone else. Pray for me as I seek to please God, and God alone. It is not easy when I have so many people who love me who don't necessarily understand my motivations to follow God first and foremost, and certainly don't understand how that translates into decisions I make. Feelings get hurt in the process but I am learning it's not enough to know what is right, that I have to obey, even when it hurts.