Proverbs for The New Year: Talk Isn't Cheap

In all labor there is profit, But mere talk leads only to poverty.

Proverbs 14:23

  James Alber wrote his own epitaph: He slept beneath the moon, He basked beneath the sun; He lived a life of going-to-do, And died with nothing done.

 “Going to do” is a very real problem.  If something is “going to be” done chances are it never will be. Too many lives are stymied by “going to do”. Too many churches are stagnant because of “going to do”. Too many people will be lost eternally because of “going to do”.

  This proverb tells us a very truth. Talk isn’t cheap, it leads to poverty. Doing nothing is the quickest way to failure. If you want success, you must do something. Labor, work, effort, and action make things better. Just talking about it does nothing.

  What do you want to do in the New Year? Better asked, what are you doing to make that happen?