Got Up and Went

Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a desert road.) So he got up and went.
Acts 8:26–27 NET

The key phrase I want you to see is the last phrase, "So he got up and went." I can't tell you how many times I'd be going throughout my day and the Lord would tell me to do something, but I never "got up and went." Sad to say for most of my Christian walk, I didn't "got up and went." In fact instead of "got up and went," I would "rationalize and not do." It seems we can reason and rationalize our way out of anything and everything, but the truth of the matter is that when we do that we are saying one of two things, "God, you don't know what you are talking about" or "God, I just don't want to do it."  For example, I'd be walking through a store, and I'd see someone drop a piece of paper on the ground and I'd hear this little tiny whisper in my head, "go pick that up for that person." For the next hour I'd be telling God how that piece of paper was really nothing, and after that didn't work, then I'd go spiritual and say "God if it was really important, then You'd find a way to get that paper to them." He would eventually respond with "I am finding a way, and its YOU!" In all that time of arguing and rationalizing, in the matter of just a few seconds I could have been obedient to Him and picked that piece of paper up and given it to that person and walk away in peace. We need to be like Philip and start making our minds up that when God tell us to do something, we get up and go! 

Take Away...

Instead of arguing with God when He tells you to do something, make your mind up to do whatever He is telling you to do, and "get up and go!"