2 Corinthians 8:11-12
“Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.”
Good purposes are like buds and blossoms, pleasant to behold, and give hopes of good fruit; but they are lost, and signify nothing without good deeds.
Good beginnings are well; but we lose the benefit, unless there is perseverance. When men purpose that which is good, and endeavor, according to their ability, to perform also, God will not reject them for what it is not in their power to do.
The blessing is not in the purposing or the beginning of something but in the doing. James encourages us to be doers and not just hearers (James 1:22). He also warns us against not taking action when we know we should or when we recognize that something needs to be done. (James 1:23-24).
Therefore, take a step of faith. Don’t worry about what you can’t do, just do what you can.
The Truth
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10)
