Dr. Peter J. Weiss

Recently a friend asked me why my email newslet­ter seemed to have a new focus on reli­gious sto­ries. 

Good ques­tion.  Obe­di­ence is the answer.

As you know, for some years I’ve been com­mit­ted to help­ing peo­ple become well.  Last March I received a very clear com­mu­ni­ca­tion from the Holy Spirit to talk more about Jesus in my work as a well­ness evan­ge­list, and now I’m try­ing to be obe­di­ent.

For what­ever rea­son, the Holy Spirit didn’t give me a lot of spe­cific instruc­tions on this.  Just “talk about Jesus more” was all I got.

Since I already had a blog, a newslet­ter and a pub­lic well­ness web­site, it seemed only nat­ural that each of these should be a venue for “talk­ing about Jesus more.”  I started with this blog.

Next came the newslet­ter, and soon the well­ness web­site presently known as the “More Health Less Care Alliance” will become “More Health Less Care: Find­ing Well­ness in Jesus Christ.” 

Those of you who know me will know that obe­di­ence is not the eas­i­est thing for me, but I know that it’s vital that I obey God in this mat­ter.  Cer­tainly God has my best inter­ests at heart and I can trust His direc­tion in my life.

I know that obey­ing here will deepen my rela­tion­ship with God, just as an obe­di­ent child will have a deeper rela­tion­ship with lov­ing par­ents.

I also know that, although God has noth­ing to prove to me, I do need to demon­strate my trust­wor­thi­ness to Him.

From Luke 16:10 (NLT) we read, “If you are faith­ful in lit­tle things, you will be faith­ful in large ones. But if you are dis­hon­est in lit­tle things, you won’t be hon­est with greater respon­si­bil­i­ties.” 

How can God trust me with greater respon­si­bil­ity if I can’t bring myself to fol­low through in the small things?

Now talk­ing about Jesus is not a “small thing” in the sense of being unim­por­tant, but, as a task, it isn’t a severe one.  I’m not risk­ing my life for doing so as I would be in cer­tain Mid­dle East­ern coun­tries.

But it was a lit­tle uncom­fort­able when I got the mes­sage a few months ago, and it is a small mat­ter to be “a lit­tle uncom­fort­able” for God.  In any event, I’m fol­low­ing through and evan­ge­lism is get­ting more nat­ural every day.

So that’s what’s going on with me and my var­i­ous activ­i­ties.

How about you?  What’s God call­ing you to do?  Are you obey­ing?  Yes or no, you can be assured that God loves you com­pletely, but it’s hard for Him to help you if you’re going off in your own direc­tion (as many peo­ple are).

I’ve done that too, but now I’m ask­ing, lis­ten­ing, and obey­ing God the best I can.  Take it from me; it’s never to late to start.

You can do it.  Let me know if I can help.