Take the Initiative

"We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves, we have to work out the salvation God has worked in.

Beware of the tendency of asking the way when you know it perfectly well.
We have to get into the habit of hearkening to God about everything, to form the habit of finding out what God says. We have to take the initiative where we are, not where we are not."
-Oswald Chambers