"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays."
-Harold Hill ("The Music Man")
Harold Hill may be a conman (and a fictional character), but what he said is true.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with a lot of empty yesterdays...
Yes, there are times to wait, but there are many times we simply procrastinate. Whether from laziness, fear, indifference, or some other reason, we push off things that should really happen today.
What are some things we postpone?
Reconciliation & restoration.
Responsibility.
Quitting bad habits.
Looking after our physical well-being.
Serving in the church.
Loving those around us
Witnessing
Etc.
And, most devastatingly: the Lord.
We do not know what will happen tomorrow. We do not know how long we will have breath in our bodies. Nor do we know how long we will have the chance to interact with those who are put in our lives.
Do we want to look back and say any of the following:
"I wish I had said I'm sorry."
"If only I spent time with them"
"Why didn't I listen?"
'Why didn't I speak?"
"Oh...wow! Umm wow...God, You are the first, last and everything in between and I gave You the same attention I give the lint screen in my dryer." (aka not very much)
And we pile up tomorrows until we have a bunch of empty yesterdays consumed by cell phones, social media, sports, television, and other modes of self-absorption and idolatry.
Not very significant in regards to positive world contribution.
Even less significant in light of eternity.
Even less significant in light of eternity.
But God gives abundant grace and that our time-wasting can change today. And if/when we fail, we can start again right away because of that same grace.
What are you postponing that you shouldn't?
For He says:
“ In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
2 Corinthians 6:2
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, making the most of the time.
Colossians 4:5
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
2 Corinthians 6:2
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, making the most of the time.
Colossians 4:5
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
James 4:13-17
