What is the challenge of obeying? You obey by inspiration, not by reasoning. But the challenge of that obedience is that every call of God to obedience is inconvenient. You can not receive inspiration and convenience or comfort at the same time. You can not receive inspiration and move towards the new that God has for you, thinking that your move will be convenient or comfortable, but quite the opposite. Every call from God for big things is inconvenient, it represents a problem.
The problem today in society is that technology has made life too convenient for us, and we hope that, in the same way, God's promises are convenient, when in fact they are not. Today we do not carry a Bible because it is not convenient; Technology has simplified it, and now you have it on your cell phone. The problem is that the Bible that you have access to in your cell phone is not the one that changes you, nor the one that you carry in your hands, but the one that you carry in your heart, which is the one that changes your life.
Technology and the times we live have made our lives more convenient, therefore, easier, but at the same time our capacities have atrophied. Because the convenient does not promise permanent changes. Life in the Lord is not always convenient, and when you decide to leave, you have to carry what you have to carry, even if it is not convenient.
All the calls that God gives you are not convenient. God never calls you when you have all the money, never asks for an offering when you have all the money you need; He always asks for it when you need it most. God asks you to open a business, when you have nothing to start with. God asks you to serve him when it is not convenient. And the problem of many is that they do not accept God's call because every call, although it is inspiring, requires that you carry something. There are things that the only way you are going to reach them is when your life is not convenient. A slight time of inconvenience, promises permanent results. But anyone who seeks convenience in his life, never enjoys the results of daring to do what others have not dared to do, carry something that others have not dared.
Every time God calls you, you will carry something in your hand that will not be convenient. And you could let go, but you have to know that there are things that you have to go through in the process, and even if God's call does not make your life more convenient, it inspires you to continue; And what you have to carry, load it, because what God promised you is bigger. Even if you do not understand why you have to carry what you are carrying, or do what you have to do, the bigger the promise, and the bigger it is that promised, and the inconvenience of your life you will live it anyway.
There are two calls that we all have to accept. The first, leave the world. The call to salvation is inconvenient. When you become, your friends change, your schedule changes; And now your life becomes inconvenient. People want convenient church schedules to then serve God. If you stay at home watching the live service online, what you are looking for is a convenient gospel.
If your way of eating is easy for you and those around you, then you are not dieting, because diet is inconvenient. It is inconvenient, but the one who wants results is willing to carry the inconvenience.
How many things has God asked you, that you have not done because they are inconvenient? Those who do what God has asked them, in spite of the inconvenience, say to their mind: I do not know how he is going to do, but this is what God told me; Trusting that God will take you to where you want to take you, that He will fulfill. But what God has for you is behind the inconvenience, and you will not find it anywhere else.
God's second call to your life is the call to serve. And this is even more inconvenient. It is more complicated because you have to accept the rejection of people; When he asks you to preach to someone, they will tell you that you are crazy. Having to prepare to serve requires time and effort, which is not convenient. The call to serve that is not convenient promises bigger things than living obeying only the things that are convenient.
Serving God is not convenient, but the rewards of whoever accepts the call to serve God, even if it is not convenient, are different from those who simply serve God for convenience. The Bible says that there is no one who has left home, father, mother and children, who does not receive a hundred times more here and now, and in the hereafter, eternal life.
