Original Entry:
January 24, 2012
McMinnville, OR
For the very work that the Father has given me to
finish, and which I am doing testifies that the Father has given me to finish,
and which I am doing, testifies that the Father has sent me. John 5:36
Lately I have been
punishing my body through an exercise regime called CrossFit. The owners of the “Box” are Hawaiian and have
named their gym McMinnville CrossFit IMUA. Imua is a Hawaiian word meaning, “Do it, press
foreword!”
IMUA! Do it. Finish what you start!
John 5:30
in the NASB says, “For the work which
the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness
of me, that the father has sent me.”
IMUA.
Whatever God calls a
man to is the exact thing he wants him to finish. As obvious as it sounds you would be surprised
at how many men I know who admittedly were called by God but choose the low
road. I know two men who have told me for nearly a decade that they are called
to ministry but have never done a thing about it-but talk.
Obedience is more
than words and talk, IMUA. Do it. Men do
the hard things.
You cannot accomplish
the work if you refuse to do it. You
can’t finish what you refuse to start. Ephesians 2:10 says, “for we are God’s workmanship created in
Christ Jesus to do (IMUA) good works which God prepared in advance for us to
do.”
Don’t wait to do
God’s will. Don’t put it off for a more
convenient time. Do hard things.
IMUA.
