Personal productivity writer Oliver Burkeman asks if this describes you—merely the kind of person who spends your life drawing up plans for how you’re going to become a different kind of person later on. This will sometimes garner you the admiration of others, since it can look from the outside like you’re busily making improvements. But it isn’t the same at all.
Perhaps we read daily, maybe even including The Bible. We attend a worship service of some type sometimes. We study, make notes, make lists of what we’d like to do.
But we never do anything.
Where is the service? The kind word to a harried sales clerk? Picking up a package for someone? Listen to someone who needs to unload?
My theology tells me that life doesn’t end once I have encountered God. Rather, because I have encountered God I have a natural impulse to serve and help others. It has become an integral part of my life.
Of what use is drawing the plans for a new house if you never live in it?
Faith Venture 
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