Life Rewards Action

Then the king of Israel replied, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who girds on his armor boast like him who takes it off.

‭‭1 Kings‬ ‭20:11‬

The other day I was reading my Bible and in the midst of stories of kings, prophets, betrayal, and battle (forget GoT, this stuff is all the drama), this verse jumped out and challenged me. Some kings were basically trash talking each other, and the king of Israel busted out this challenge. He’s saying that you shouldn’t brag about what you’re going to do the same way someone could brag about what they’ve done.

I think this verse has nagged at me for a few days because if I did half the things I talked about doing my life and possibly the world would be a very different place. It’s easy to say I’m going to or act a certain way, or achieve a goal, or make a difference, or have a certain kind of relationship, or do something awesome. Even easier to say someone else should do it. The point where I have to follow through is the hard part. I see this so much in my life. I like to consider myself an idea person, but what if I approached life as an “I did it” person?

The hard reality is that my ideas don’t change anything. No ones ideas change anything. The only thing that actually changes the world is action. And when I take action THEN I can come back and tell people if my idea matters. Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t just say he had a dream, he did something about it. Christopher Columbus didn’t sit at home and tell people he thought there were discoveries to be made, he went and made them. If someone comes to me with an idea instead of picking it apart I should just smile at them and tell them to go do it. And tell myself that as well.

You see, the world isn’t going to change because I have an idea. Life rewards action, not thought.

There will never be a better time than today. I will never be less busy, less tired, or more equipped to begin than I am today. I’m going to focus on becoming a “did it” person, who wants to leave the world of lofty ideas and join me in the world of meaningful execution?

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