The Balance of Being & Doing

James 1:19
¹⁹ Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];

There is great healing found in "being". People won't care what I do as much as they will be concerned about my being who I say I am. 

My doing must have it's root system founded on being who God says I am.  

It's easy to get caught up in the doing of a thing and lose sight of who we are meant to be. Jesus did what He saw His Father doing. His true identity was caught up in the fact of simply being who His Father desired Him to be. 

My identity is not wrapped up in the doing of a thing. Just because I can do a thing doesn't exempt me from the integrity of being. If my doing doesn't measure up to the being, it will have a very destructive nature and do more harm. 

There are seasons to be doing but there are also seasons to be sitting and resting, listening and learning. These seasons of sitting may feel like the wilderness to us but they are vital to our growth and maturity, Don't despise those wilderness seasons...they are necessary. 


Galatians 6:9Amplified Bible (AMP)
9 Let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give in. 

Let's not forget to "be" in the midst of our "doing".

Some versions say: BE not weary in well DOING....

When I am weary, I need to pull aside and listen and hear and love and believe. I encourage you if you are in this kind of season, there be no shame in waiting and listening and hearing and loving and believing, and receiving.