Just Do Something Quotes

“We must renounce our sinful desire to know the future and to be in control.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“We don’t take risks for God because we are obsessed with safety, security, and most of all, with the future. That’s why most of our prayers fall into one of two categories. Either we ask that everything would be fine or we ask to know that everything will be fine.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“we need the firm reminder that many of us expect too much out of life. We’ve assumed that we’ll experience heaven on earth, and then we get disappointed when earth seems so unheavenly.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“Abel had faith and he died; Enoch had faith and he did not die; Noah had faith and everyone else died!2 So just having faith doesn’t guarantee your life—or the lives of those around you—will be all candy canes and lollipops. Life isn’t always fun, and we shouldn’t expect it to be.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“We may have the best of intentions in trying to discern God’s will, but we should really stop putting ourselves through the misery of overspiritualizing every decision.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“So go marry someone, provided you’re equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it’s not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God’s sake start making some decisions in your life. Don”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“We don’t have to say “If the Lord wills” after every sentence, but it must be in our heads and hearts. We must live our lives believing that all of our plans and strategies are subject to the immutable will of God. Therefore, we should be humble in looking to the future because we don’t control it; God does. And we should be hopeful in looking to the future because God controls it, not us. This brings us back to anxiety, our tendency to live out the future before it arrives. We must renounce our sinful desire to know the future and to be in control. We are not gods. We walk by faith, not by sight. We risk because God does not risk. We walk into the future in God-glorifying confidence, not because the future is known to us but because it is known to God. And that’s all we need to know. Worry about the future is not simply a character tic, it is the sin of unbelief, an indication that our hearts are not resting in the promises of God.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“We don’t just want His word that He will be with us; we want Him to show us the end from the beginning and prove to us that He can be trusted. We want to know what tomorrow will bring instead of being content with simple obedience on the journey. And so we obsess about the future and we get anxious, because anxiety, after all, is simply living out the future before it gets here. But”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“Bruce Waltke, Finding the Will of God: A Pagan Notion?”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“God is not a Magic 8-Ball we shake up and peer into whenever we have a decision to make. He is a good God who gives us brains, shows us the way of obedience, and invites us to take risks for Him. We”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“It is no small discredit to this practice that the heathens, who knew not the Bible, used some of their favorite books in the same way … for if people will be governed by the occurrence of a single text of Scripture, without regarding the context, or duly comparing it with the general tenor of the word of God, and with their own circumstances, they may commit the greatest extravagances, expect the greatest impossibilities, and contradict the plainest dictates of common sense, while they think they have the word of God on their side.”5”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“If you think that God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live though the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“Count on it: God's will is always your sanctification. He has set you and me apart that we would grow to be more like Christ.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“It would be bad enough if we were just restless, meandering through life, and a little cowardly. But we’ve spiritualized restless and meandering cowardice, making it feel like piety instead of passivity.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“God’s way is not to show us what tomorrow looks like or even to tell us what decisions we should make tomorrow. That’s not His way because that’s not the way of faith. God’s way is to tell us that He knows tomorrow, He cares for us, and therefore, we should not worry. Verse”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“Decide” comes from the Latin word decidere, meaning “to cut off,” which explains why decisions are so hard these days. We can’t stand the thought of cutting off any of our options. If we choose A, we feel the sting of not having B and C and D. As a result, every choice feels worse than no choice at all.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“Perhaps your free spirit needs less freedom and more faithfulness.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“He calls us to run hard after Him, His commands, and His glory. The decision to be in God’s will is not the choice between Memphis or Fargo or engineering or art; it’s the daily decision we face to seek God’s kingdom or ours, submit to His lordship or not, live according to His rules or our own.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“It’s all a matter of perspective. If you think that God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you live though the normal struggles of life. But if you remember that God promised we would be pilgrims and this world may feel more like a desert or even a prison, you might find your life surprisingly happy.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will