doing not hearing

I believe that there are a lot of people that have tremendous desire to be great. A desire that fuels every part of them. We buy books, listen to podcasts, spend money on coaches and trainers but if we never do anything about it what is the point?

Why waste the time?

If I spend 45 minutes listening to a podcast about becoming mentally strong and not letting negative things take over my mind and don't implement a single thing that I listened to then I wasted my time. If I spend $25 on a book, spend a few hours reading it and don't apply what I lived into my daily life, than I not only wasted my money, I also wasted my time.

It's like going to church on Sunday, getting super fired up, the sermon is about getting more into reading your bible, and Monday comes around and you don't feel like it?

We waste so many of our emotions on things that we want to do something about but we never do.

This is probably the most common thing we don't actually apply to our lives and it's what we read in our bibles. Do you remember the last thing you read in your bible where you thought to yourself: "Yep! This is what I needed, this is what I needed to hear, I am going to do this."

Next time you're faced with temptation, you forget about what you read and just decide to give into it.  Or you totally just forget about it!

It's a never ending cycle, we talk a lot of talk but we don't walk the walk.

I can't lie to you, I forget about things that I read about all of the time. I listen to podcasts and I forget what I hear about it. If I did everything that I poured into me, I would be perfect. We are not perfect. That's why it's so hard.

In all areas of life this happens way too much. We settle every day of our lives. I listened to a podcast that said we usually quit after reaching 40% of what we are capable of doing. Imagine how much more great we would be at everything we do if we even got to 50%.

Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at their face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. (James 1:22-24)

Imagine looking at yourself in the mirror and totally forgetting what you look like? We cannot continue to keep this up. We have to apply what we read from the word every day. Because if we aren't then why waste our time?

It's important to listen do it, but it is much more important to obey it, to do what it says.

We can measure the effectiveness of our Bible study time by the effect it has on our behavior and attitudes.

If you are reading this and don't feel like you are being affected by what you read in the word, then maybe you aren't in the word enough.

Two things to take away from this...the first being, do what you read about in the word. Apply it to your lives. Same with anything that you pour into your mind. Motivating podcasts, training sessions, etc. Do something about it! I promise you won't regret it. The second thing to do, start pouring into those rescuers. There is inspiration everywhere. Most importantly, dive into the word of God!