For the
past weeks and months, compulsion has crept into my life. Not just tempting
compulsions, like having the chocolates I shouldn’t have but spiritual
compulsion. I have other people also dealing with the issue of spiritual
compulsion. So, what is spiritual compulsion and how do we listen to it.
Spiritual
compulsion is when God speaks to your heart to do something or say something. He keeps putting scenes, words or people into
our minds. And no matter how we try to ignore it, it keeps coming back to us,
day or night. That’s how we often know that it is God.
The Devil
doesn’t have the patience to wait for us to “get the message”. He moves on if
we don’t react quickly. But God, he chose you or me to do his bidding, and He
is patient, kind and loving, and He will wait for us because deep down, He knows
it will take us a while because humans will be humans!
But what
happens if we do His bidding and the other person is not as responsive as we
expected because who would deny God’s bidding, right? We hear often in church how we need to spread
the Good News, tell others about being saved by Jesus Christ and how we all
need God but how often do we question Him when He needs us. We doubt, mistrust and many times just don’t
listen.
We can’t
make the other person listen, trust and believe but what we can do is do what
God lays on our heart especially if we
truly believe God wants it to better or help the other person. But we also need
to patient, kind and loving to give the other person time to do what they need
to do to know that God is using you to help them. And for the person being compelled,
it’s not always easy; it can be frustrating but needs to be done.
God uses us
in many ways whether we understand it or not. He is not asking us to
understand, He is telling us to follow Him and do what He says. Maybe He uses
compulsion to help us learn to trust Him too? In Scripture, Jesus tells a rich man to leave
everything behind and follow Him. He couldn’t do it. If God lays something on
your heart like this, would you? Could you?
A few
months ago, I saw a young man at robots. He has a growth growing out the side
of his face, his right arm is crooked and he has a leg problem. When I look
deep into his eyes, I see something; I couldn’t get him out of my mind. I don’t
know why and can’t explain it because not many people affect me like this but
he did. So, I did the only thing I could do, I prayed and I keep praying. God wants me to do something and I don’t know
what. I don’t even know if I have the courage to help. So, I give him money so
he can eat, have electricity and try to look after himself. And every time, I
give, He looks at me in the eyes and says “God Bless you”. Those three words
pierce my heart every time and I often wonder if God is urging me to help him because
maybe God is using me to help him believe those three words for himself and
believe that God will bless Him.
And because
I still don’t know, I am considering using my birthday to give him food stamps.
Spiritual compulsion is just one of God’s mysterious ways and I don’t
understand it, don’t know much about it, but I can’t ignore it. Can you?
The followers went everywhere in the world and
told the Good News to people, and the Lord
helped them.
The Lord proved that the Good News they told
was true
by giving them power to work miracles.
Mark 16:20
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