If God tells you to do something, DO IT!

Just a little reinforcement for you.

1 Kings 13. Entire Chapter

There was a man from Judah that came to king Jeroboam in Bethel, and told him God's warning to him about something that would happen, due to his disobedience. Right after he gave Jeroboam the warning, the same thing he said would happen, happened before their eyes. Jeroboam told his men to hold on to the Judean man, and as he stretched his hand out while he was speaking, his hand dried up, and he couldn't pull it back. He asked the Judean man to pray and ask God for his hand to be restored. The man did, and his hand was restored, as it was before. Jeroboam then asked the man to come back to his house to refresh himself, and be rewarded. The man said even if Jeroboam offered him half his house, he would not go, because the word of the Lord to the man was to not eat bread nor drink water in that place, and to not even return to his city using the same path he used to get there!

On his way back, an old prophet in Bethel met up with him and asked him to come back to his house and eat with him. The man said no, again, for the same reason he said no to Jeroboam. The old prophet then told him that an angel spoke to him and said to bring the man back to eat bread and drink water. The man went back with him. After they ate, a word from the Lord came to the old prophet, and he told the man that for his disobedience, his body wouldn't even make it back to his fathers' grave, which was significant back then, because many men were buried in the grave of their fathers. On the way back, the man, riding a donkey, was killed by a lion. The lion did not eat the man's body, and didn't even touch the donkey he rode on.

This is a tragic story, but it shows us something very simple, but very significant. When God tells you to do something, DO IT! Do it when and how He tells you. If someone tells you the complete opposite of what you know God said to you, then you should know something ain't right. God is no liar, nor is he the author of confusion. Obedience is key in this walk of faith...