TAKE ACTION

You may recognize the image above from the excellent work by Kyle Eschenroeder on Art of Manliness: Meditations on the Wisdom of Action. While the piece does drift off into secularism, it has some excellent wisdom at its core. For example:

“Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.” –Plutarch, Sayings of the Spartans

The Spartans knew they would meet the enemy and fight with courage. They didn’t ask for unnecessary information.

You don’t need to either.

Gather the minimum information you need to begin.

Then, before you think you’re ready, begin.

This will provide you more useful information than any amount of abstract research ever could.

A similar message is delivered by our Lord through the book of Proverbs chapter 6: 

Go to the ant, O sluggard;

    consider her ways, and be wise.

Without having any chief,

    officer, or ruler,

she prepares her bread in summer

    and gathers her food in harvest.

My father once summarized it like this:

"Spend less time thinking about it and more time listening to God and taking action."

I really don't think I should write anything more here. Our "research" needs to stop, our "thinking" needs to come to an end. Go to the ant. TAKE ACTION

Oh - but what if I really, really, really don't feel like it, and usually obey that feeling when it comes?

Then, and most especially then:

TAKE ACTION.

Rest when the action is done. But right now:

TAKE ACTION