Action

I have heard it said, if we say but do not do, we are not willing to put action to our words. We can say a lot and do nothing and each time we do that, we remove the power behind the words we say. If I say I love you to someone, that love is not just a word, but an action, a promise to do what I can to show the person what that word means. To love someone isn't just when it feels good, but to love unconditionally all the time. When we say I love you Lord, that means that we are wanting to do what He calls us to do, because that is the true meaning of love. Love without action is just a word, to say Love means I am willing to do what it takes to represent my love.

To say I am a Christian, a Christ follower, means that I need to be willing to do what He calls me to do, to do it not out of obligation, but to do it because I want to follow Jesus Christ. He may call us to walk difficult area's in our lives, but we do it not to say I did it or because it is easy, but because it brings glory to God. We may be called to a certain thing, but we grumble and complain every chance we get, that isn't serving God, that is doing the opposite. If God has placed us there, He has a reason and we need to give Him thanks in every situation, in everything, that means the difficult position.

When you put action into each area that you are struggling in, it changes your view on things. I will explain. In marriage, you want to deepen your love with your spouse, the more you represent love, show love, the more you will begin to rekindle that spark, but it takes action. It isn't just saying I love you, it is backed with actually doing what that word means.

If I am constantly looking at life negatively and just say how bad things are. Am I actually giving thanks to God for everything that He has given me? No, I am not, I am actually doing the opposite, every critical thing I say, I am saying God I know better, that I know more than You and in doing so, I am not bringing God glory, I am not being a Christ follower, I am being a self follower. I am telling God that I know better than He knows. God says in Ephesians 5:20 "always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." I have to put it to action, because no longer is it about "I", but Christ in me.

We have to be willing to put action into everything we do and say, if we are not doing it, we are just a clanging gong and ruin the very example that Jesus has called us to be.

How many words a day are said without action? How many times do we say something and do not follow through? Isn't it time to make every word we say count? Isn't it time to be who Jesus calls us to be?