Thought

You don't get somewhere by staying still, you have to put action into the moving. Just the same way in our Christian walks, we need to put to action what God has told us or shown us. We must be willing to move, if we will not move, then are we walking in faith or just standing there hoping that we will move?

We can say we want a closer walk with Jesus Christ, but if we do not follow what He has put into the Bible, we will not be any closer to having that closer walk with Him. We must do what it takes to have a closer walk with Him. Have you heard anyone say, that they want a closer walk with God, but then they say they have no time to have it? It takes work, everything that is worth having takes work. Having a marriage takes work, you must be willing to put the work into it. Having kids takes work and the Bible talks about investing into our kids. We need to be willing to invest. What you put into each thing is what you will get out, if you put nothing into it, then nothing will come out of it, but if you invest then you will get that out and maybe more, but it takes work, it takes time.

Do you want to get something out of your relationships? If so, then you have to invest. It is like putting money into the stock market. If I say that I want to get money out, I have to be willing to put money in. If I put nothing in, then I will most defiantly get nothing out. Sometimes we put money into it and lose, but at least we tried, just like in our relationships, we can put in and have nothing to show for it in the end, but our reward will be out of this world, but our relationship with Jesus Christ, we will always get something out of that, but we must be willing to put into it. If we put nothing in, we will get nothing out of it. In our relationships, if both people are investing into each other, just think of the reward. "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." Don't base it how they are to you, base it on how God is to you. He will never give up on us.

To accomplish something we must be willing to do the work. To move we must be willing to walk. To grow we must be willing to invest our time. God talks about how we need to invest in Him, in our marriages, in our kids, in our jobs. If nothing is coming out of it, are you investing into it?