Being Passively Active

Good morning, Glitteridge Church. I hope you are well. It's Kirk Walson back with another devotion and I'm excited to share this morning about what I think it means to be passively active and I'm going to come in a bit left field here and share my Bible, my study Bible's contextual overview of Proverbs. So that's the introduction to Proverbs and it spoke about the difference between knowledge and wisdom and although it was seemingly simple but it did strike me with a much larger scale issue in my life and it's this. well let me get to the the difference between knowledge and wisdom and knowledge is knowing many things and wisdom is knowing those things and taking action upon them and applying them to your life and when I read this this morning it really struck me and spoke to my sort of slight inadequacy to follow through with what I tell people I'm going to do when I offer them favors I actually do them and when I dream and I have these visions and plans I actually I seek them and they're not just empty words that hold no value and just a few scriptures that I thought were quite sort of similar to to this topic one is Jeremiah 7 verse 23 and it says "Walk in all the ways I command you that it may go well with you" and the word "walk" there is quite significant because it's an action where you you go from one place to another and there's this literal process of moving forward and it's it's not talk because talking you stay in the same spot so I think now is very significant for me and I think it does apply here as well moving from passivity into sort of this active lifestyle of going out making disciples of all nations and you have to walk to go and do those things and the second one which was Sludy Moria Showing was in Colossians 3 verse 23 and it's it's short but it's it packs a punch and it says "whatever you do work at it with all your heart as working for the Lord" and I thought this was was really really cool more like a motivation to chase what we chase our word that we said we were going to do and know that it's even if it's sort of not an admirable journey that we we found ourselves on but it's still it's a cost of discipleship obviously if we we moving in step with the Lord and His will for us but yes guys I love you lots and we're actually going to close up with prayer so Lord I have any Father I just thank you that we have this splendid relationship to be able to freely connect with you whenever we want Lord whether it be in the lows of our lows in the highs of our highs thank you Lord that you give us this God-breathed scripture Lord that we can reflect on our own lives and find the cracks in our character to fill them up with this gold that is your scripture Lord and you can strengthen us and yeah just make us whole again Lord and bless this weak Ed Amen