When God Asks Too Much

Has God ever asked absolutely too much of you? Have you sensed God wanting you to make too much of a change? Has He requested that you step well outside of your comfort zone? Is God asking you to do just the opposite of what you most want to do? Has He sent you back down a path you've already traveled? Have you experienced your way being in direct conflict with God's way? If yes to any one of the questions, then know that you're in the company of many other believers, many other doers of the Word, many other soldiers in the army of God.

Did God ask too much of Jeremiah when He said "you must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place" (see Jeremiah 16:2)?   Jeremiah followed God's instructions.  It would appear that Queen Esther was asked to give up everything, her life included, if she went before the king on her own (see Esther 4-5).

Why should she go before the king and risk her life? To save her people required her taking a step outside of her comfort zone.  The prophet, the man of God, Hosea, was told to marry a prostitute, which he did. After giving birth to three children, she went back to the streets (see Hosea 1). The man of God went after her. Just a bit much, don't you think?

How will you respond when God asks too much of you? Or, what will you do when God asks you to step outside of your comfort zone? Has God requested too great a change from you? My pastor often reminds us that life is choice driven,  and that we live and die by the choices we make. When God speaks, when He calls, which choice will you make?