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.
Thirdly, notice James 4:13-14, “… Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”
This verse is rebuking the procrastination of vows. A procrastinated vow is simply a broken vow. Saying you will do something and then finding yourself unable or unwilling to do it as committed is wrong. I always say it is better to never commit then to not remit!
Finally, note Proverbs 3:27-28, “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.”
This is the ultimate Scripture reference in respect to procrastination. When we put something good off, somebody else is always negatively affected.
We all have things in our life that we just don’t want to deal with, but look at them this way: when you do take care of it, you will feel like somebody just severed a cord that was holding you down. Procrastination is a sin. And we know in Proverbs 5:22 that our sins hold us down like cords.
So I have concluded that no matter the application, there can be no relaxation in the presence of procrastination. So, why the circumnavigation of your every situation? With a touch of consideration, your immediate concentration will find you liberation!
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