I have been planning on writing another article for some time. If you did not know this about me I have citizenship in several different countries. I am a child of the King, so I am a citizen of Heaven first. I was born and raised in the United States of America, therefore I am a citizen of this country. The third country that I am a citizen of, I just happened to fall into. I have a hard time getting started with any project. I am a citizen of the Procrasti-Nation.
I have always been this way to a degree. I was one of the students in school that, more often than not, I was putting of school projects until the last day or two. That was not intentional, I just have a hard time deciding which direction to go in. I would choose a topic and then at the last minute decide to go with something else.
I know I am not the only one out there that does such things. You know as well as I do that it is not a very good habit to get into and if you could you would break that cycle. Then, why would you do that today if you could start tomorrow?
I see people around me in some circles that I am in that do four thousand things in one day and are still going strong. I poop out after I tie my shoelaces. Those people make me sick. Good grief people! Take it easy once in a while so we procrastinators don’t look so bad. I mean, come on! Give us little sleepy-headed folks a break!
Yes, before you say anything, I know being a full-fledged, card-carrying citizen of ProcrastiNation is not a really good thing, but if it wasn’t for us you busy, busy people would have six thousand things to do daily!
Yes, I know too what Proverbs 6:6-9 says: “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which have no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest, How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?”
When I read that and see the word sluggard, all I can think about is snails. Now some people actually eat snails, and I tried that once. It is like chewing on a rubber band – the thick kind that you would put around a very large stack of papers. Yuck was the only sensation I got. That is not a pretty picture.
I said all of the above (in a little bit of exaggeration) to say this: I was once no better than a slug, spiritually. I put things off and always waited until the next day or sometime in the future to act. I had no hope of getting out of this situation. I was like a snail that is in thick mud, having a hard time getting anywhere. What progress I made was impeded by more mud. How is it possible to get out of this situation that a spiritual slug was in?
The answer is in Psalm 40:1-3 : “I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.”
Christ did that to me. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, he did that to you. We are new creatures in Jesus Christ!
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17
~AE
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