"Go
at once to the house on… Straight street ..." (Acts 9:11 NIV)
In my teacher’s training, I learned the
importance of motivating my students. When planning their lessons one must
always, according to the rules of the art, have a motivating element. Recently,
I started to question this practice, because if you follow these principles
exactly, it becomes the teacher's fault if students do not have the desire to
learn.
All too many
people want to be assured of things before they act. In real life, it is
actually not so, that you always feel motivated to do what you must, but you do
it anyway. And you feel better to not even consider your own desire to do the
job. It is simply to go ahead and do it. Someone once said: ‘It is more likely that your actions will
affect your emotions, than your emotions will motivate you to act.’
The Word of the
Lord came to the disciple Ananias. He was commissioned to go to Saul, known as
Paul, his Roman name, and the person who came to mean the most in the spread of
Christianity. Ananias would witness to him and bring him to faith. The word
‘immediately’ in today's scripture is important. The Lord did not say: Think
about whether you could imagine doing anything in this situation. He said
simply: Go immediately!
When the Lord
speaks to us today, we often know clearly what He wants us to do. But we can
easily analyze and reason away from the certainty of what He actually said. The
Word of the Lord to you and me today is: Go immediately!
Prayer
Lord, when You talk to me today, I would act
immediately and do what You ask of me. Stop me if I should begin to delay.
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