2 Kings 10:30-31

"And the Lord said unto Jehu, 'Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.' But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart; for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin."

Seldom in the Christian life are we called to do something specific. It's happened to me twice. Although work is work and we should expect to have difficulty with it, still I find these are the easy times. It's so great to actually know what you're supposed to be doing, to have a way to do it and have a goal in sight at the end. But most of the Christian life is not being called to some great work. Most of it is walking with Christ through the daily grind and waiting on Him. These are the difficult times, when we are most likely to believe God has withdrawn from us, or when we start off on some great project of our own design that leads to failure. This was Jehu's problem: He was great at fulfilling his mission, but his day-to-day life fell into destruction.

Action is easy; walking is hard.