Cost of Obedience

"My obedience has cost me nothing when I compare it to the cost God incurred to buy me back."

~ Cindy McClamma~

Read that again, please.

We sponsor a missionary in Namibia, Africa.  She's a widow with 3 grown children and 5 young grandchildren.  She felt God leading her out of her comfort zone a few years ago and obeyed herself all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.

We get monthly e-newsletters which I read word for word.  Love her wisdom.  The quote above is hers.

Have you ever thought, "If I give God complete control and surrender every single part of my life, will he send me overseas somewhere to be a missionary?" 

Have you cringed at the thought of the cost to you personally? 

Does it scare you to think what God would do with you if you really did give it all to Him?

"My obedience has cost me nothing when I compare it to the cost God incurred to buy me back."

Could there really be any place better than where God wants you?

It might not be overseas.  It might be walking next door to invite a neighbor to dinner. 

Or going downtown to feed the homeless and praying with them.

Or speaking to the greeter at the grocery store and inviting him/her to church.

It might just be being willing.  Being open.  Listening for that still, small voice to prompt you. And not ignoring it. 

I pray I hear loud and clear and am willing to obey, whatever the cost.