WHERE DO YOU BELONG?

The Gospel today brought about up a series of questions to ponder on beginning with “in which category do you fall? Our verse of interest is John  7:44” “And some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.” So here we had a group of men who would have wished to take charge of Jesus, but because none of them made a move, he walked away free.

There are are a number of categories of people:

1. Those who do without planning,
2. Those who plan without doing,
3. Those who plan and do,
4. Those who only plan,
5. Those who only do,
6. Those who neither plan nor do,

Men who only plan, work with facts and  probabilities. Their operations are often some distance from the real execution. So they never really witness the process of execution to identify points of application, adaptation to gain from real time leaning. Those who only do, are action men. Yet they are also so far removed from the foundations of the planning process that they may be unaware of pitfalls, gaps and challenges that were identified.

Those who do without planning, get to learn from their mistakes, should they make it out. However, some executions may become too costly to recover from. And those who plan without doing, can never tell if their plan works. The men we meet in today’s Gospel  however, neither planned, nor did anything. They only “wished”. And they got nothing to show for it.

The ideal combination is thus “to plan and do”. You get a taste of both worlds, the crafting and the action. In the beginning, God made man, and then God formed man. There was a planning phase, then the execution phase. Don’t get perpetually stuck in any single one of the.

#sly