Arise! Go And Serve

3 days ago
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I concluded yesterday’s meditation by stating that there was just one thing which made Ananias hesitant about obeying and doing the work to which God had called him. Have you thought about it? Listen again to what the Lord God says. Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying. Acts 9: 11b.

Is it the place to which he has to go that bothers him? No, it is not, for he has no issue with Judas who lives on Straight Street.

Is it the service or work that he has to perform that bothers him? No, it is not, for he has no qualms about placing his hands on a blind person to restore his sight.

What then is the problem? It is the person to whom he must go. Put another way, this servant of God has an issue with his Master, not on the miracle he has been sent to perform, but on the man on whom this miracle must be performed.

This is huge for me, very big indeed for here is a disciple of Jesus, an ordinary disciple like you and me, and he seems to have no fears or doubts about the supernatural work. His problem is with the natural. In other words, to use his ordinary hands to touch and restore a person’s sight is no problem. He believes that his Master can do this in him. The problem is not that for which his hands are to be used.

What is my issue? What is my overwhelming concern? That the Lord has called me is not my issue. My fears are not with the natural and human, but the divine and supernatural. Yet, I look at Ananias and his fears are with the natural and human. Honestly, this leaves me in such deep thought. A servant-disciple of Jesus is not even bothered about whether he is able to place his hands on a man whose sight is no longer there, to make him see again. This will be my issue, and perhaps yours as well, but it is not Ananias’. Can a servant of Jesus so surrender his or her hands to the Lord, that whatever He requires of those hands is not an issue for the servant?

Whatever this does or does not do to you, however it affects you, I know that it leads me to prayer and confession.