Facing the elephant in the room

For some time, I have had heavy burdens placed on my heart. I have chaffed under these challenges. Like a disobedient stiff-necked cow, I have firmly planted my feet and have refused to act. I always have lots of good excuses--I am too tired; maybe next week I will go do it when I have more energy; I will just pray someone else will go do it. But yesterday at church, Pastor Greg gave an incredible sermon on facing the elephant in the room--what big thing(s) in your life need to change in order to be walking obediently with the Lord.

The Lord has been laying a heavy hand on me. I have wanted to visit a senior assisted living facility to spread the Good News and perhaps give them some delicious baked goods. I kept putting off the task. I learned one man I really wanted to talk to was struck and killed by a car two weeks ago. Since then, the assisted living facility closed down. What a precious opportunity I let slip from my hands! I pray that man was saved by Jesus. I pray I was not the one who was supposed to have told this man about Jesus. I also pray for all the other folks I never got to meet and tell them about Jesus. Wherever they are today, I pray they know Jesus, and if they do not, someone will tell them the Gospel. "The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some men count slowness, but is patient towards us, not willing that any should suffer, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).

There are a few other burdens, which have been heavy on my heart. I know I should (and want to) do one thing, but instead I refrain from spending my precious energy completing God's work. I have tried to take a shortcut, and God has made it abundantly clear: "'My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,' says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts'" (Isaiah 55:8-9).

So, if you could, please keep me in your prayers as I prepare to plunge ahead and tackle the burdens on my heart. Pray God will give me the energy needed to complete these tasks. Pray I do not lose heart and procrastinate. Thank you!