Of Delayed Obedience

A delay is something we hate - delayed responses from globe, delayed responses from your crush, delayed McDeliveries, delayed trains, delayed flights and a lot more delays we don't want to run into. But ironically, it's also our favorite tactic of escaping things we can never really escape. We humans have mastered the art of stalling meetings with people we don't like, relatives we aren't close with, delaying events we don't know how to or want to face yet.

And I must confess,  I definitely hate God's seemingly delayed answers to my prayers.. but I do love to run around and delay my obedience first. Am I the only one, though?

~O~

I think, not. I believe each of us has our own collection (yes, marami-rami na yun, aminin!) of delaying incidents when it comes to obeying God. Sometimes, no matter how much we hear God, we just don't like to think that we hear Him talking. Yes, God comes in a gentle whisper, but certainly, His caress can't be that hard to spot. It's just hard to tell someone something, if he doesn't really listen, in the first place. And that someone - that's US.

We are all and always bound to our wanting nature. The nature that desires more for oneself and only for oneself. And God's answers, are more often than always, leaning to the side that is seemingly not good for us. But here's the secret: the bold seemingly meant that in the most majestic truth we can ever discover, God's answers are light years better and best than what our original plans dictate. And yes, that's a simple and wonderful truth about our God.

But why would we delay in the first place?

• Well, it IS hard to go against our original plans that are based on what we see. How the hell will we jump if we don't see what's below, right? :|

 While our plans are well calculated and fact-based on our needs and situation, God's plans are immense and go farther than what we can calculate and see. We only see a dot in the big constellation of God's plan, and He himself has laid it out for us. Who do we trust then? Our 20-20 vision, or God's multi-dimensional outlook? :>

Yay for God!

• Also! We have a funny way of hoping, and clinging to that hope that in the middle of the delay, the plans will change or there will be a better solution.

Truth be told, God's solution is already the best solution. Maybe not evident now, or the minute after, or the day after.. or even the months after! But it is! How do I know? Faithfulness. And no, not our wavering faithfulness... but God's UNWAVERING faithfulness. Because, simply speaking, we should all be dead by now. By the rate of sins we commit, none of us should be breathing another second of his/her life. But God is faithful, not because we are so great, but because He is just so full of love; that whatever we do, nothing can take away that love from us.

~O~

So, hearing God, but fearing His plans? Don't delay your obedience; just as He is as prompt in loving us, and embracing us as we turn to Him. Don't delay your obedience, so as not to delay His blessings and His gift of love in your life.

Gora na friends! Let's say

Yes Lord, Yes Lord, Yes Yes Lord.. now na! :D