“Knowing doesn’t make the difference. Doing does.”

A thought by Andy Stanley (2009-03-31) in his book, The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (p. 178). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Now I may memorize the Bible from cover to cover and it may help me in winning some arguments but if I don’t see it as God’s personal living plan for my life and do what it says then it will not make a vital, everlasting difference in my life.

Now I may know how important it is for an overweight 64 year old man who wants to live a productive, long, active, healthy life to exercise and eat right and I may propagate what I know but if I don’t do what I know then I will not reap the benefit from what I know.

Now I may know that people don’t want to be around someone who is argumentative, self-focused and disingenuous but if I don’t do the changes in my character to make a difference in how I act then I will be a very lonely and probably angry individual who has no meaningful, close relationships.

Now I may know that the laws in my town are right and good and they are there to protective me but if I disregard them and don’t do what they require of me then they will not make a positive difference in my life, only a negative consequence to my life.

Now if I know that God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son so that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life but I don’t do what it says and believe in Him with my whole life and allow Him to make a difference in and through my life then what I know will have no value whatsoever to me.

The difference is not in knowing, the difference is in doing.

So what do you know and more importantly are doing that is making a difference?

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