Doing something.

Good conversations of late. A comment online cemented the deal with regard faith, life, and action. The quote went something like this...

"The church in North America is obsessed with learning, not so much with doing. Let me be bold enough to do what it is I have learned."

Good morning conviction. How are you?

We read about prayer, we sit and listen to wise minds and prophets speak about praying for others and the power found in it. Do we do anything with this knowledge?

We hear sermons about life and death and God. What do we do with that knowledge? Does it move us?

We have studies and Bibles with notes, opening the door to tremendous theological truths that ought to rattle the foundations of our lives and this very world we live in. Does it? Is your Thursday any different after learning about the hugeness of God on Wednesday night?

How much of faith is borne out in our willingness to move? Are we obsessed with knowledge, dare I say gluttonous about our quest to be filled up, and then stingy with the life-changing, earth moving truth that is uncovered? Our salvation rests not in our action -- that is God's work. But, is our salvation shown, realized, revealled to the world around us, by what these words and thoughts move us to do?

May I have the courage to do what it is that I know today.