Preach What You Practice

I'm still not quite sure how I came upon this inverted title, but I like it. I know, I know it's supposed to be "practice what you preach yade yade yada." But isn't that so mundane and boring?

I think it would pose more of a challenge if we were asked to preach what we practice. The idea behind the philosophy of practicing what you preach is kind of backwards once you think about it, right? Practicing what you preach has the implication that you didn't practice what you were preaching until after your preached it and if you preached before you practiced doesn't that make you a hypocrite at the time of the preaching?

I know that was confusing...I think that's why it was so much fun. Try saying it three times fast...... not really.

The point is that a lot of times we give people advice and then we are afraid to take it ourselves; human nature or something like that....well it's kinda silly. If we preach what we practice wouldn't we all be a bit more honest with ourselves? Instead of disillusioning ourselves into thinking that we take our own advice until someone spews those sour words right back on us, we should get real with ourselves before we tell others what to do. It's a sort of "get the log out of your eye before you try to get the twig out of your brothers" idea.

Maybe if people preach what they actually practice there would be a lot less conflicting advice in the world. And if there were a lot less conflicting advice in the world maybe there wouldn't be so many lost and deranged people looking for direction. Maybe if AS CHRISTIANS we took a moment to look at what we are doing and try to line it up with what we say we believe we would find out that a lot of times our lines may be blurred or even off track. And if we took a minute to see that what we say and what we do AS CHRISTIANS don't always match up we wouldn't have to sit and scratch our heads about why our world is  so fallen and rejects the teachings of Jesus, the Messiah, our Savior and Redeemer. And if we weren't scratching our heads and wondering why our world is so lost then we would have time to get off our butts and do something about it!

No wonder our world is crumbling around us.