I was reading yesterday and I came across a quote of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), an English supporter of the American Revolution, and it really got my attention. Burke said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Isn't that the truth! Christians want to sit around and complain about all the evils of the world, but what are we doing about it? When we do nothing, we are essentially giving all forms of evil permission to operate.
Edmund Burke did not uncover some big secret with this observation. God already told us the very same thing. Look at James 4:17, "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
We have instructions from God in the Bible for how we are supposed to live and act. Jesus spent his time on earth leaving us directions. The fact is that we know what we should be doing. So, why are so many Christians choosing not to?
No matter what's causing the inaction -- be it complacency, procrastination, indecision, whatever -- we need to realize those things are not of God, and its just the enemy's way of trying to immobilize God's army. Pray for God to give us an awareness of what He wants us to do; so we do not fall prey to inaction.
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