Believing and doing

I heard this guy say yesterday that believing always precedes doing and doing always follows believing. That means if you believe something, it's going to show up in your life. Now, we can argue about that all you want, but then we're just doing more of what people like you and I tend to do - talking about what we believe, rather than doing something about it.

One thing that a lot of us claim to believe is that God is love. It's in the Bible and it's basically common knowledge that God loves everyone, but how many of us actually live like God loves us? You almost have to set up a system of rewards and punishments to get people to read the Bible and pray, to spend time with someone who loves them dearly. That doesn't really make sense if you think about it.

If you think about, if we believe that God really is as loving as we say he is, it is a great thing to spend time with him. We gain something from it and he actually wants to be with us.