Exodus 12: Doing What God Commands

All the Israelites did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions. -Exodus 12:50-51 NIV

The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded and that very day, the very day of their obedience, they were delivered.  Does that sound familiar?  Do we have a tendency to struggle and struggle with an issue, waiting for the Lord to act, when all the time, we are the one who is supposed to be doing something.  God is waiting for us to act, to be obedient.  It may be a habit that we are wanting to break.  We pray and pray, asking to be delivered, when all we need to do is act. Perhaps our heart needs to change toward another person.  If we do as we are supposed to do, if we love that person, bless that person, honor that person, we will find that our attitude is changed.  We act and we find that that desire which we thought impossible to quench is gone. 

God always gives us the grace, but it is when we need it most, not while we are waiting.  Grace is needed in the thick of things.  Just like the Israelites, on the day that we do what the Lord commands, God will act in our behalf.  He will bring us out of our Egypt because we have been obedient.  We all know what God is commanding of us in this moment.  If we want to be delivered, we need to act.