*Just Do It!

A promise kept is better than a promise made. It takes little if any character to do the latter, but it takes a lot for the first. Jesus’ story of the father who asked his two sons to work in his vineyard bears this out. One promised he would, but didn’t; the other made no such promise, and did. It was the second of these that our Lord commended.

The wise man in Ecclesiastes tells us it is better not to promise than to do so and not keep it. We need to stop talking and start doing. As one of our modern day cliché’s goes, “Just do it.” And even an older one says, “Talk is cheap.” As I used to tell my people when I was a pastor, “I’m gonna’ never done nothin’!”

“Arise [therefore], and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.”