Laced With Grace – Christian Devotions

I’ll Do It! – Tomorrow

By Guest Blogger June 12, 2014 Devotion

      I don’t know how many times I have said this but I know I’ve said it a lot. I’m going on a diet…I’ll start tomorrow. I’m going to start exercising…tomorrow. Start eating healthy, write that letter, read that book, make that dress, and on and on. At best it is wishful thinking on my part, at worst it is a lie I tell myself, and somewhere in between it is a bad habit of procrastination, but many end the same – never started . Occasionally I do get the thing done in one of my tomorrows, but more often I don’t. Then I am left feeling guilty and like I failed.

      If there is one thing I should know by now it is tomorrow doesn’t want todays assignments, doesn’t want to pick up todays slack, it has its own things to get done. If God lays something on my heart to do today, I’m pretty sure I should do it today. It goes along with that worrying thing Jesus mentions in the Bible…

“Do not worry for tomorrow, what you will eat, what you will drink.” (Matt. 6:25)

Each day is pretty full with things of its own.

“…for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matt. 6:34)

      Now don’t misunderstand me and think I’m saying we shouldn’t be organized and plan ahead. I’m not saying that it’s wrong to plan some things for tomorrow or beyond (Lord willing), I’m saying that it’s wrong to make a habit of putting off till tomorrow what we know we should be doing today (Benjamin Franklin was right). There are a lot of people who get to the end of their long lives and realize they never did some things they put off until tomorrow, and come to find out that some of them were more important than they thought. Looking back always makes our vision clearer, but it can then find us in a place of regret.

      If I’m going to put something off like going on a diet, I might just find myself fat at the end of my tomorrows, but if I put off something of eternal value, like telling a certain person about Jesus…or writing that letter of encouragement…or investing in that young person – I’ll find myself sad and regretting I didn’t use my todays more wisely.

Are you putting something off today?

 

5 thoughts on “I’ll Do It! – Tomorrow”

  1. Charlotte

    I posted this devotion last night, and here I am already in yesterday’s tomorrow. The Lord was right, there are plenty of things here to take up this new day. May He lead us through each day…one day at a time:)

  3. Melba

    Wise words Charlotte! I am going to sit down and write that get well card with words of encouragement and mail it TODAY!

    Thank you,
    Melba