Fools Assume

I wrote this, quite a while back and thought it appropriate to post here. Though I still struggle with my tendency to assume, I can see the grace of a patient Heavenly Father at work and the changes He is producing.

Duke's basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski (aka Coach K), wrote in his book Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life, "One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare - but they don't assume."

Too often as Christians we sit back and assume everything will go well. We unbiblically pretend to rely on the all-sufficient grace of Christ. In all truthfulness it is not reliance but procrastination and laziness. Christ taught that to be a disciple we must deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him (Matt 16:24). Biblical Christianity puts action to words. In James 2 we are taught that faith without action is not faith.

We need to get off of the sofa and start working. Let's not assume that the work is going to get done.
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
1Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;


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