"The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing."

A thought by John C. Maxwell, (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn:Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses (p. 219). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

I am about to finish this book. I have underlined and shared a lot of thoughts here on this blog but if that was all I did then it would just be entertainment and in a sense a waste of my time. And I don’t have enough days here to live to waste them. The key is, what am I going to do with what I have read and the same is true of you? What are you doing with what you know?

Now knowing is very important. There are so many people who have died between their ears. They are not challenged to learn. They went to school and that part of their life they say is over. But our brain didn’t go out of existence just because we finished going to school. Knowing is very important but doing is the next step from knowing.

I am challenging myself to read 14 books this year. I am finishing my second one today and in the midst of reading four others. I am also challenging myself to read the whole Bible through this year. I am reading my ninth book right now. I am retired and I want to make use of my time but I am not doing it just to learn. I want to do. I’m not done living yet. God has something more for me to do each day and I hunger for what He has for me to do.

I do love to watch TV and go to movies with Margaret my wife. I also like to read mysteries but there is more to life than just leisure. I just read before I started writing this, Acts 17 & 18 in the Bible and in the last part of verse 23 in chapter 18, Luke the writer says of Paul, that he went “one town after another, putting fresh heart into the disciples.” And that is what I am striving to do today. I want to put fresh hearts into Jesus' disciples. so that is what i am doing because I didn’t want there to be a gap between my knowing and my doing.

Let’s quit wasting our life in just leisure and starting learning and then doing. There is so much to learn and so much to do.

also John said that Coach John Wooden used to say continually to his players, “Don’t tell me what you’re going to do, show me what you will do.” So let's do something.

Isn’t life exciting?

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