What Should I Do

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"Peter's words pierced their hearts, and they said to him and to the other apostles, 'Brothers, what should we do?'" (Acts 2:37)

While I kept these two superheroes a couple of weeks ago, we  talked a lot about daily choices between good and evil, obedience and disobedience, and the good or bad consequences that our choices bring upon us.

In women's ministry, I often hear the question, "What should I do?" from wives and mothers facing financial difficulty or marriage problems or the heartache of a wayward child. My answer mimics Mary at the wedding at Cana when she told the servants, "Do whatever He (Jesus) tells you."

Financial difficulties? Begin with Malachi 3:10: "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse...put Me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down a blessing until there is no more need."

Marriage problems? Begin with Ephesians 5:22-27: "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord...Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved he church and gave Himself up for her."

Wayward child? Begin with 2 Timothy 2:24-26: "And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will."

Oswald Chambers wrote: "It is a matter of obedience. If we turn away from obedience for even one second, darkness and death are immediately at work again. All of God's revealed truths are sealed until they are opened to us through obedience. If you obey God in the first thing He shows you, then He instantly opened up the next truth to you."

Beloved, are you asking, "What should I do?" Open the word of God for His perfect instruction, then trust and obey. 

And obey. 

And obey. 

And keep trusting. 

And keep obeying. 

God's word is the true lamp unto your feet and the bright light unto your right path (Psalm 119:105).