Enthusiasm without knowledge is no good; haste makes mistakes. (Proverbs 19:2)It is always funny in movies when the main guy gets everybody stirred up to go do something and they go running off, only to discover that they do not really know what they are going to do. They are excited and enthusiastic and have lots of drive and fervor, but no knowledge.
An enthusiastic bunch of people that come together to build a house are good to have, but if they don’t have a blueprint or a foreman who knows what he is doing, they will build a sorry house.
It is the same with doing things for God. You need to know what you are doing and know the Source of your power or it is all for nothing.
The apostle Paul talked about those kind of people in Romans 10:1-3:
I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.The people he was talking about wanted to do good things, but refused the good way to do them. They were enthusiastic but in the wrong direction.
Enthusiasm is great and I hate phlegmatic people. But at the same time, I would rather have slower, knowledgeable people who got the job done right, than overly enthusiastic people who mess everything up.
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