"We will never do what God wants us to do, until we start doing them on the days we don't want to!"
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Good morning! Did you get out of bed on time today? Or are you one of the countless who clung to each minute of slumber by way of repeated punches of the snooze button? How about that garage that needs to be cleaned, or that shed that was supposed to be painted? Hmmm...say, did you ever send in that payment that you've been promising to drop in the mail?!
If you're like me, some of things you simply just don't want to do! In the past I have put tasks off to the point I found myself downright convicted. Only to turn and try my very best to put the nagging conviction out of my mind! But as I have grown older and closer to God, I have learned to heed His teachings against procrastination.
There it is...procrastination-that's what's at the crux of the issue.
See Matthew 5:23, "If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee; Leave there, thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift."
Keeping that in mind, observe Ephesians 4:6, "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath."
We are being taught that reconciliation in our relationships with God and man should never be put off. When sin occurs, we must confess before God our wrongdoing and make it right with anybody whom our wrongdoing affected.
Next, take a look at Luke 14:21, "...Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind."
This verse is an excerpt from the parable of the great supper. One of the things Jesus is saying in this verse is that we should not tarry, or procrastinate, in our efforts of carrying for the weak in our world. In other words, we should not be lackadaisical in spreading the Gospel message.
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