Strange Instructions

[Dr. Thomas Galt]

I hope this speaks as much to you as it did to me. I just HAD to pass it on. God bless.

Dr. Tom

Strange Instructions
TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2, by Os Hillman
02-05-2010

"And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands" (2 John 6).

A distinguished Indian evangelist named Sadhu Chellappa was on a mission trip to a village north of Madras,
when in the middle of the night he suddenly sensed God speaking to him:
"Leave this house quickly and run away!"

Not exactly a convenient thing to do. But Chellappa was accustomed to accepting even strange instructions from
the Lord without debate, so he dressed quickly and ran into the
darkness.

After a while, he was in open country. As he passed beneath a large tree, he felt God tell him, "Stay here and
start to preach!" Now, even for an experienced evangelist, this was
puzzling--because there was no one to be seen. Why did God want him to
preach to an empty field in the middle of the night? But he stopped
under the tree and began to preach the gospel.

Finally, he reached the point at which he called on his unseen listeners to give their lives to Jesus. He was
surprised to hear a voice from the top of the tree and see a man climb
down, crying. The man tearfully gave his life to Jesus. When Chellappa
asked why he was in a tree out in the middle of nowhere, the man
admitted, "I came out here to hang myself."

How is your obedience quotient? God calls us to be obedient to that small voice inside that can direct us to
sometimes do strange things. Jesus was obedient in ALL things. "For
just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made
sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be
made righteous" (Rom 5:19). God can do exceedingly great things through
one man or woman who is willing to be obedient to God's voice. Ask for
His grace today to be obedient to His voice.

[Christopher R. Dockrey]

Awesome story!