Actions and Words {Be Encouraged with Kristina}

Well done is better than well said. – Benjamin Franklin

I tend to talk…a lot! Just ask my friends and family and they will tell you of countless times I have bored them to death with my stories or opinions on just about every subject! Along with talking, I have also been blessed with the ability to dream big and plan extravagant things that will never actually happen. Recently I have been really convicted about how much time I spend talking, dreaming and planning and how little time I spend DOING the things I am talking about, dreaming of and planning for!

In my quiet time recently, I cam across James 1:23-25 which says,  ^“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.”  As I was reading these words I was really convicted about how often I will say the right words, or write a blog post, or hear a great sermon but after a while I abandon my own words or forget what I heard and I never do anything about it or put what I believe and have been taught into action.

I am sure you have all heard the saying, “actions speak louder than words”, but usually when I have thought about this saying I haven’t thought about what my current actions are saying about me. I believe that the things we spend the most time on or the things we spend our energy and money on are the most telling of where our heart is focused. To be quite honest my actions and my words haven’t been lining up very well recently and I am very ashamed of that fact. Instead of focusing on the Lord and letting him guide what my actions should be I have been far to focused on everything I need to do and be and say, but because I haven’t been focused on honoring the Lord I did a really bad job of actually doing the things that needed to be done!

I have found in my life that I am far more productive and helpful to those around me when I have taken the time to seek the Lord and spend time in His word. There is no use trying to make it through life on my own, planning, working, and trying to be everything I think I am “supposed to be”, because that isn’t how God created me to function. God created each of us to firstly seek Him and Know Him and then, and only then, go out and do what he has called us to do in His strength.

Friends, it is my prayer that we may be known as young women who are doing the will of the Lord and bringing honor and glory to his name through our service, love AND our words.