FRIDAY THOUGHTS #104: OBEDIENCE

 

Obedience.

I was just talking with my Uncle the other day about life - we talked about a few things, one of them being: obedience and the quality of life. We were talking about past mistakes we've made and discussed that the reason we made many of those mistakes is because we didn't follow our gut instinct.

When I got married many many moons ago, I knew in my heart that it wasn't the correct decision, but I didn't have the character to understand what that discomfort in my soul meant. I didn't understand what that uneasy feeling in my gut meant: "run and run fast" lol.  My Uncle felt the same way when he got married, matter of fact, I've talked to so many divorced people and almost all of them have said to me that they "knew" in their gut that they were making the wrong decision but they got married anyway.

Our gut will never lie. You know what you should be doing and if you don't, you should be seeking God's guidance towards your purpose so obsessively that you make it easier to "hear" your gut nudging you towards your correct path.

I can look back on so many times I was disobedient to my guts guidance...and I can tell that every single time I hurt myself in the end. Every single time I caused myself unnecessary pain because I was simply not being obedient. I swear to you, at this point in my life I don't care what God/The Universe is telling me to do - I will do it and I will do it quickly and without hesitation. I know that my joy, peace and happiness is directly affected if  I disobey or delay. It may not make sense to other people, heck, it may even make them angry - that's okay. My job is to live a life as obedient as I can, God will never have us walk away from something beautiful in order to give us something less than - that's not the way it works. God is always directing us to something bigger and better for us, we just need to trust the process, enjoy the journey and follow our gut without the need to understand it. Trust the process.

Life is really simple, we just make it difficult. The path to happiness starts with obedience.

Follow your gut and do the thing you know you should. Leave that relationship, start that company, talk to that girl, eat healthier, move to that city, go back to school, meditate more, etc. Do all the things you know you should and do it quickly because if you don't, you're just hurting you in the end. 

Be obedient and live free champions, the world needs what you have - give it to them.