It’s About Time…

Procrastination. It has been a safety mechanism for me for years. Not only that but over time I have developed a reliable set of explanations to assist with it.

After all, I do have responsibilities. I don’t have the money. Time is not on my side. Someone else can do it better. I have never done it before. No one has supported me before. Someone else did it and failed miserably. My friends won’t understand why I am doing it. My family will think I am wasting my time. I have started things before but never finished them. Maybe it’s just not the right time to go about it. I would have done it but I had something else to attend to. It would have been great but I was needed elsewhere. This could cost me a lot of money, time and energy. I might have to cut off some important relationships and projects. Folks at church wouldn’t look at me the same. People at work would think I am not with them. I am too tired. I am too stressed. I am too sick. I am too weak. I don’t have enough. I am not good enough. I don’t want to do it and I don’t think I can.

Those are just the ones that I refer to on page one of the large volume I put together over the years.

Of course, then I made the big mistake of paying attention to the call of God that He makes to individuals over the course of Scripture. Men and women who have every reason to believe they’re not the right people for the given task. God all the time reassuring but also insisting that He knows better than they do and it’s about time they got the memo and worked with Him to make an incredible impact on the world. They get in line, God uses them and … well, we have a collection of books that records their deeds as well as a host of others who never have their names mentioned, but are still instrumental to the amazing narrative of God’s redemptive work in humanity for His eternal purposes.

That’s just scripture. History from the apostolic era to now records scores of others from a wide variety of backgrounds with a myriad of great reasons why it couldn’t be them at that time and yet God said it was them that He would use to make an incredible impact on their world as He informed them that it was about time they got the email/WhatsApp message and worked with Him.

I know I was not created by accident. I know I am not here without reason. I also know that there is a loving heavenly Father who yearns to save humanity and lift them from their fall. I know He has done this through His only Son. I know He has now made it possible for those who believe in Him to rise to become His children living in the light and being the light to the dark world in which they live.

I know this. So the Book of Procrastination has to be torched and replaced by the Book of Faith.

It’s about time.

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden