-Strength for Today- "Do What We’re Commanded to Do! -Luke 10:27

When I’m not feeling well, I do to my doctor, then after a thorough examination, and if she finds an infection, she then writes a prescription. Guess what Dr. Simala expects me to do in my pain while I’m waiting to get better? She expects me to take medicine!  

• She doesn’t expect me to read about the medicine.  
• She doesn’t expect me to talk about the medicine.  
• She doesn’t even expect me to understand what the medicine is and how it works.  

  But she does expect me to take the medicine, and let it work. So, my responsibility is to just do what she prescribed, and let the outcome present itself in time. When you or I take medicine, we wait for it to work. It’s never instant. 

    Far too many Christians like to talk to other people about what God’s Word says we are to do in our lives. We like to think about His Word, and consider it. But far too many won’t actually act on it, or put it into practice. And yet, God, the Great Physician, has prescribed what we need from His Word. Whether or not we follow what He has revealed, things like:  

• Faith,  
• Forgiveness,  
• Hope,  
• Love, and  
• Trust 

     Will determine how long it’ll takes for us to mature, and develop into the wholeness of Jesus Christ. These however, are the characteristics of Christ. 

God never tells us everything He’s going to do, “For who hath known the mind of God” Or who hath been His Counselor”?  (Romans 11:34), but He has told us something. So, whatever it is, obey it: 

• However small, or 
• However insignificant it may seem, obey it.  

    Do what you know to do even if you don’t know what it’s doing. 

You can start with the simplest of all commandments to remember, but the most difficult to live out.  

• I say it’s simple to remember because it basically boils down to one word “love.”  
• I say it’s difficult to live out because this one word contains the essence of all the other commandments, we’ve ever been given.  

    It says: “Thou shalt love the LORD, thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself” - Luke 10:27. 

Author: Plez Lovelady, Jr., PhD