You live a busy life. There are so many demands upon your daily schedule. With so many things tugging at your time, you find it hard to do everything that needs to be done. What is worse is that after a hard day at work or school, you feel you need time to relax. After all, you are tired and feel you deserve to do nothing.
The result of this, is that the things that need to be done today, are put off until tomorrow. You think that since you cannot possible do everything that you need to do today, you just do nothing today.
This type of thinking becomes a habit. The result is almost everything needing to be done today, is put off to some future date. An unknown author puts that type of thinking this way: “The future is that time when you’d wish you’d done what you are not doing now.” Ouch! So very true. Today, you wish you had done those things that needed to be done yesterday.
Scripture discusses that mentality. In the Wisdom Literature of Ecclesiastes, some fresh thoughts on the subject emerge: “Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth. Before the difficult times come, and the years draw near when you say. ‘I have no pleasure in them’” (12:1; NKJV). Those first two words put delaying things until tomorrow into perspective – “Remember now.” Thus, telling you to do all you can do today. Do not put off until tomorrow, what you can do today.
The mentality of doing it tomorrow robs today of the tasks you can do. As some say about doing things today, “I will do it tomorrow.” Be realistic. You cannot possibly do everything that you need to do in one day. On the flip side, though, do all you can today. Do it now!
