Obedience.

I'm doing the Faithful, Abundant, True Bible Study at Evergreen. Today I read the quote by Charles Spurgeon, 1861. "Surely, though we have had to mourn our disobedience with many tears and sighs, we now find joy in yielding ourselves as servants of the Lord. Our deepest desire is to do the Lord's will in all things. Oh, for obedience! It has been supposed by many ill-instructed people that the doctrine of justification by faith is opposed to the teaching of good works, or obedience. There is no truth in that supposition. We preach the obedience of faith."
A modern day version of that quote is by Bill Hybels, of Willow Creek Com. Church. "If you hear God's whisper...ACT! Or you may never hear from Him again."
Priscilla Schirer asks, "What does the expression 'delayed obedience is disobedience' mean to you?"
When God asks you to do something, change something, stop something, Priscilla calls it "A Holy Spirit-inspired action." I like that. It's like Mark Bowen's "a visceral movement: a movement of God inwardly."
Then Priscilla ends the day's study with, "Whatever God has asked you to pursue, He will accompany you to complete. You can move forward with confidence, since His ability will equip you to accomplish any task that He places before you. The time is NOW to pursue all that the Lord has for you."
Phil. 2: 15, NLT says, "God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him"
Have a great day, dear one, as you take your next steps of obedience.

Ps. If you have time to read the document in full that Spurgeon wrote, it's quite interesting: long, but interesting. The times are the same today, as then.