Don’t Stop Thinkin’ About Tomorrow

Posted by bakerboy on May 5, 2010 | 1 comment

Procrastination is like a credit card; it is a lot of fun until you get the bill. ~ Christopher Parker

Let’s face it: If your roof is leaking, that’s a problem.  You know that if you don’t fix it, the leak will get worse, ruining the drywall and rotting lumber.  Before you know it, what could have been a simple patch job leads into a major construction project.  But how often in life do we do this to ourselves, “putting off” potentially destructive things because we don’t want to deal with them? Unfortunately, we allow damaging relationships, destructive habits, and dangerous situations linger until they can no longer be avoided and irreversible damage is done.

My stepfather smoked his entire life.  He started when he was just ten years old, bumming a cig here and there.  He worked his way up to two packs a day, and by the time he turned fifty, he had developed emphysema.  Now for any of you who know about this awful disease, you understand that it is a very slow, very painful death.  Yet smoking was such an addiction, such a part of his life, he had convinced himself that it was not the smoking that had done the damage, and he continued his habit, even though it was bad for him, even though he gasped for air.  At times he would say he wished he had never started; at other times, he said it was his one true comfort.  And while he had an incredible fighting spirit, eventually he lost his battle.   And I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if he had quit smoking twenty years earlier.  Would he still be around?

And while we may look at our lives and say that we have no addictions or habits or inclinations that are slowly leading us to a very bad place that will leave us gasping for air, we all know what lies in the darkest shadows of our hearts.  We all have something that we hide from the rest of the world that keeps us chained and is leading us to a very slow, very painful death.

Galatians 5:1 reminds us that, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”  What this tells me is that God, in His love, does not want us to be burdened by those things we are allowing into our lives to drag us down.  He has given us the means to attain freedom from those chains that bind, but we have to make that decision to work towards that freedom.  If we do, he also promises us that we will never have to do it alone.

So stop procrastinating! Don’t put off until tomorrow that thing you can do today! Because I can promise you, time and festering only makes those little problems become so large that they will literally leave you gasping for air.

Catch you on the flip side,

Ang

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