Resolve and Action

Resolve and Action

These are two of life’s most important characteristics. We understand them best by considering someone who conducts himself in the opposite way, and by thinking about it.

When a person decides not to do something, but when he does not resolve to do it, then in and by itself his resolve is nullified by his pathetic indecision. Such a person is double-minded. He wants to and does not want to. He does not know what he wants. Instead of “You double-minded,” it says “You indecisive men” in the French Bible translation. Jas. 4:8.

At the moment that you have resolved to do some good, regardless of what it is, the blessed and blessing power of action is set in motion immediately so that it is carried out without hesitation.

This is what the adage, “Much bleating but little wool” denotes. This is the very thing that weighed so heavily on James’ heart: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only . . . .” Jas. 1:22.