A high school department existed long ago, maybe it still does for all I know, called Home Economics. The curriculum included how to prepare meals, how to eat the meals, how to sew clothes, and the like.
A scene from my high school days. Lunch time. The tables crowded. A group gathered around the HomeEc teacher. I remember her words as clearly today as then, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
That thought haunts me as I observe people who profess to follow Jesus—well, maybe they label themselves Christian— whose actions belie their proclamations.
Epictetus was a slave in the early first century in Rome who became a revered teacher. One of his thoughts went, “no man should ever profess to be a philosopher, but that each should leave this character to be inferred from his actions.”
I think Jesus uttered a similar thought to conclude his teaching, “Whoever hears my words and does them is like the man who builds his house upon rock.”
Sometimes the thought sneaks into my awareness that prods me to consider if I am only full of words not backed up by action. How about you? A thought for the day
Faith Venture 
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