“There's time to spare.”Uh nope. That is incorrect. The time is now.
We are so good at procrastinating. We are so good at waiting for the perfect conditions on the perfect day when we have the perfect experience and the perfect plan. We think things will be easier when we're older and wiser, so we tell God to just hang on until then. Or we hope that if we wait, it will leave room for someone older and wiser to tell us just what to do, or even better, to step in and do it themselves.
Yesterday, this jumped out at me from Jeremiah 47:7 “But how can it rest when the Lord has commanded it, when he has ordered it...?” The next chapter also talks about it won't go so well for those who are lax in doing God's work.
How many opportunities for God's grace to go out, for His gospel and kingdom to advance have I missed because I've been too 'resting' or chilling or being lax, buying into the lie that there's time to spare?
Dear friends, let us not wait! God has called us now, to use us now. Yes, he says don't worry about tomorrow, but let us also not leave our living until tomorrow, for tomorrow is never certain. God wants to use you now in whatever stage you are in right now.
Don’t wait for tomorrow. If there is someone that is on your heart, message them straight away. If there is a prayer in your heart, pray it now. If you haven't read the Word today, open your Bible here and now. If you told someone you'd pray for them, do that right now. If there is a skill you want to learn, google how today. If there is a hard conversation you need to have, set it up now. Do what you need to do today.
"As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work." - John 9:4
We don’t know what tomorrow holds, and all we can control is what we do right now in this very moment.
You really only do live once, so do it well and do it now. There is no time to spare. Live for Jesus now.
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