Whatever He tells you, do it:
The call to childlike obedience
By Pastor Aggrey Soyekwo
John 2.5 “His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”” – NIV
They were attending a wedding in Cana. Jesus had not gone into public ministry yet. When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother came to inform Him about it. Jesus told her He had nothing to do with it, and that His time had not yet come. Any way, by faith, she went ahead to preempt Him by telling the servants there to do whatever Jesus told them to do. Jesus instructed the servants to fill the big water jars with water. They did. He asked them to draw the water (now turned into wine)and take to the master of ceremonies. They did. Whatever He told them to do, they simply did that.
What God tells us to do, however crazy and humanly illogical it may appear, only requires our simple obedience. He asks us to do our part. And He does His. We may not know everything, how things will work out to produce the results we expect or desire, but we can only obediently believe and trust His word. The key is to be sure you heard Him, an not assume.
God still operates that way. He requires our simple obedience to whatever He instructs us to do. He asked Lazarus’ sisters to roll away the stone at his tomb before He raised Lazarus.
Before He does whatever He wants to do for and through us, God wants simple obedience without much complication just as a child will obey without much logical reasoning. Does God want us to operate like puppets? No. He gave us the brains and minds to think and rationalise issues. But there are things beyond reason that requires simple obedience in faith for Him to act. When we so do, His limitless power is released to work on our behalf. Trust Him. He never misleads.
Trust and obey,
there us no other way,
to be happy in Jesus,
but to trust and obey
Mark 9:23 “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things [are] possible to him that believeth.” – KJV
Shalom children of God.