What do you do when you hear something you understand as God’s own truth? How do you respond when he tells you what to do? 

Joseph is told what to do in the verses above. Each time he was told, “Get up.” Each time (verses 14 and 21), Matthew records, “So he got up.”

When God told Joseph to get up, he got up. You may have heard somewhere along the way that delayed obedience is disobedience. Joseph did not delay. He chose to obey immediately. 

God’s will done in God’s timing leads to God’s intended results. 

Here is a wise commitment you can make today and for the rest of your life that will maximize your life: When God says, “Get up,” get up. When God says, “Go,” go. When God says, “Wait,” wait.

Years ago, I clearly heard God say, “Wait.” Many months later, while puzzling over this issue, God said, “Go.” There is a stretch of highway in the Houston area I drive from time to time. Every time I drive through that place, I remember the moment God said, “Go.”

To this day, I have no idea what the waiting was for. I have no idea why that particular timing was right. I do know, at least at that moment, I was in sync with God’s will and God’s timing, and everything he told me to wait on turned out well. 

Joseph did not have to have his say. 
Joseph did not have to have things his own way. 
Whatever God wanted is what he wanted. 
This is what it is like to trust and obey. 

Again, when God says, “Get up,” get up. When God says, “Go,” go. When God says, “Wait,” wait.

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I will trust God’s heart and obey his commands.

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