The last few months, I have wanted to write about this
subject but just kept putting it to the side. Of course, the subject is
procrastination. Wait a minute; don’t good things come to those who wait? You
can’t serve wine until it’s time. Cheese isn’t any good unless it’s aged. It can always wait till tomorrow, right?
A few weeks ago I learned a lesson…probably the most costly
procrastination lesson. Even though I have a Sun Pass, there is one particular
toll booth that doesn’t seem to like my pass. It didn’t like my pass 4 times as
a matter of fact. I knew about these 6
months ago when I got the ‘pay up now notice’ but put these warning in the
inbox on my desk.
Let me tell you something about my inbox it would be more
aptly named, “My Organized Trash Box”.
When the State of Florida gives you a 3rd warning…..it’s
actually your last warning. Then they send it to the Courts. Once it goes to
Court, they have a tendency to add things, like more fines. Basically, the
$3.00 in tolls that I could have paid, on the phone right away, grew up. I’m
not going to tell you how much but let’s say they reached a total that could
have only been reached using complicated algebraic and calculus equations.
My procrastination cost me dearly. In this imperfect world
we live in, it is highly more likely that the longer we wait to do things, the
harder and more unpleasant they will seem to be. Right!
Have you ever really asked yourself why you are not taking
care of the things you know need to be done in your life? Is it something
deeper that keeps you from doing what needs to be done, or is it the anxiety of
giving something more pleasurable up in order to get the right thing done.
Perhaps it is the thought of pain that keeps us from doing the right thing.
How many of us have missed out on an opportunity because we
put it off? I know you can’t see but both my arms are raised! Sometimes, God
presents us an opportunity and we say, “When I get to it”. When I was in the US
Navy we used to have a saying, “If the chief says ‘JUMP’, you say ‘How high’. Spiritually, when God says, ‘GO’…you need to
start packing your bags and booking the flight!
Proverbs 26:13-16 “The sluggard says, "There is a lion
in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!" As a door turns on its
hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he
is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. The sluggard is wiser in his own
eyes than seven men who answer discreetly.”
I have heard many excuses for not working, but the Bible
uses the old,” there might be a lion outside I should stay inside and watch television
excuse.” Think of this excuse in a spiritual sense; are we so lazy that we
cannot lift the Word of God that would feed our spirit? Procrastination is
simply laziness and it leads to a life that will never experience fulfillment.
So many people accept the Lord yet are waiting to become
something they may never be, before they allow themselves to be used by God.
There procrastinating because of their own fear or feelings of inadequacies. If
this is how you feel just remembering the people God used:
Noah was a drunk, Abraham was an old man, Isaac was a
dreamer, Jacob was a liar, Joseph was abused, Moses had a speech impediment,
Gideon was afraid, Samson was a womanizer, Rahab was a prostitute, Jeremiah was
too young, David cheated on his wife, Elijah was suicidal, Isaiah preached in
his birthday suit, Jonah ran from God, Naomi was a widow, Job went bankrupt,
Peter denied Christ, Martha was a worrier, the Samaritan woman was divorced a
few times, Zaccheus was a little guy, Paul was overly religious, Timothy had stomach
issues and Lazarus was dead!
What do you have that’s worse than that? Stop waiting for
things to get better… they won’t. At least not until you get off that couch and
acting on God’s Word.
No more excuses. Stop procrastinating. God can use you to
your full potential.
You have no idea what tomorrow will bring if in
fact there is a tomorrow. Why don’t you act today? God is calling for each of
us to do today what needs to be done. If God is calling… you MUST a
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