It’s really interesting when you watch some people in conversation. Some people are real talkers, while others are real quiet. It’s important that we communicate ideas and get our point across. However, this can only get us so far.
As far as being a talker or being more reserved, I would fall in the latter category. I definitely use an economy of words to communicate ideas or convey concepts to others. I am a headliner. I guess I believe that there is no need for me to add more words than is necessary. As a result, I haven’t in the past appreciated other peoples’ tendency to verbalize using copious amounts of words. I have come to a more balanced understanding of things. I do now see that it can sometimes be a valid approach to use additional words to be more descriptive and better convey an idea. There are times when you just can’t give a proper understanding using the least amount of words possible. Often times I find myself needing to be more descriptive. A large number of adjectives aren’t necessarily a bad thing if they serve a purpose. At other times they just serve the purpose of being extra words.
Being my quiet, more reserved self, I sometimes marvel at the amount of words others can use to communicate. I end up sitting with my mouth dropped open thinking, “How are you even doing that? You just keep going and going and going.” I think politicians are especially good at this. I guess this skill is a prerequisite for their chosen profession. So, I tend to cut them a little bit of slack. However, I have close friends, and even family members, who are also quite gifted in extensive wordplay. So, I’m wondering, what’s their excuse? Well, maybe they’re in sales. I have to cut them some slack as well, I guess. The thing is I couldn’t even do that if I tried. I guess, in some ways, I’m a little jealous. I wish I was a better verbal communicator.
Although, there’s definitely a time to communicate instructions, or new ideas, there also comes a time to take action. If all we ever did was talk, then we wouldn’t get much accomplished in this world. I just think of the military. What would happen if all that ever happened was the leaders communicated orders to their underlings? What if they just told all the lower ranks what to do and everyone just sat there? I imagine that army wouldn’t win many wars. Unless it was a war of words. Maybe they could stand on the battle line and have a strongly-worded debate. Try to make the other side cry or something. The other side could come back with the ‘sticks-and-stones’ retort. War doesn’t seem to work that way, though. What is usually required following the dispensing of new information is some kind of action. This is often where we get tripped up.
I was reading this verse in Exodus when I thought of this topic. Exodus 14:15 say, “And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:” I found this verse interesting. We all know the importance of prayer in our daily lives. God repeatedly tells us to petition Him with our requests and we know He is willing to grant us those requests. So, in reading this verse, I found it interesting to hear God telling Moses to get up and tell the Israelites to move forward. I believe God was saying, “I’ve heard and granted your request, now get up and tell the children of Israel to move.”
See, there’s definitely a time for prayer. However, following our time talking to God, He will often require us to do something. This is often our step of faith. We ask God for something, but then we need to show our faith by acting on what we just prayed over. ‘Faith in action’ it’s generally called.
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The book of James is known for this subject. In James 1:22 it says, “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” James spoke a number of times about adding works to our faith. He knew that we had to evidence our faith through our actions. Here he says that if we just sit and hear the Word without acting on it, we’re only deceiving ourselves. I mean, we can talk a good talk. We only know the extent of our faith, though, when we start to walk it out.
A little later on in James he conveys a similar idea. James 2:26 says, “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” James shows for us the power of having a living faith. We have a living faith by doing those things in the Word we say we believe. How do we know we believe it? When we are doing it. Simple question, simple answer, right? But while these things are simple, we have a tendency to complicate them. Sometimes we often feel more comfortable in our ‘prayer zone’, rather than step out of our comfort zone. This can often times be really uncomfortable, sometimes even painful. But when God gives us the green light He’s also promised to back us up. We can take comfort in knowing He is with us all the way.
Even though I don’t have the tendency to speak extensively, this is still a good lesson for me. Because while I won’t speak at great length on anything, I can have trouble when it comes time to get myself moving and take action. So, I guess whatever end of the spectrum we’re on, we all need to get moving at some point.
Exodus 14:15 say, “And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:”
James 1:22 it says, “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
James 2:26 says, “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”