Do It Again!
Photo of an open laptop with the words, “Just start” on the screen. Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash
A few months ago, I was headed to my car in the parking lot after service. I spoke to another sister in passing, who serves on the prayer ministry. Immediately after walking our separate ways, she stopped abruptly, turned around and said, “God says, do it again!” I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced such, but it wasn’t that I didn’t receive the message, but it was too generic for me to trace the hand of God in the manner that would have soothed me. Yet, I trust the God in her, and I received the Word and continued my journey. Before we crossed over into 2024, God gave me specific instruction for a few things. I decided to be obedient and I find myself “doing again” a few things that I’d allowed to fall off by the wayside. Re-engaging has been a blessing to me and it wasn’t until today that the Holy Spirit brought to my remembrance those words several months ago. I am old enough and degreed enough to still believe what others may perceive as the foolishness of God, even without tangible evidence to solidify my claim. Revelation 21:5 reads, “And He who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” This suggests to me that even the things we’ve forgotten, abandoned, forfeited and relinquished, can be embraced and owned by us…again.
What do you need to do again? Dedicate yourself to a fitness and wellness plan on “Monday” again? Commit to finding joy in a mundane job? Reignite love with another person that’s disappointed you? Take the trip that was previously canceled? Whatever it is (or was), is the potential for what you may loose greater than the probability of what you may gain? The enemy of our lives would prefer that we remain stagnant. The preference is for us to give up, take our ball and go home. Yet, even when we do, it’s not as though he leaves us alone. No, he bothers us when we fail to bother with the people, places and things that we desire – so, we might as well move toward that for which our heart pants. If we are believers, we will present as a target for the enemy “in the house or in the streets.” Nevertheless, our Word tells us “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.” (Deuteronomy 28:6). `Accordingly, we may as well “do it again.” What’s stopping you?