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"I Have Plenty of Time"
Brian Mashburn
August 23, 2015
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"I Have Plenty of Time"
I always have plenty of time... except when I don't.
Unfortunately, the easiest way for me to learn that I don't have plenty of time is after my time has run out.
In college, I was told in September of a big project due in December. Since I had "plenty of time", I gave it no attention that day, and invested in other seemingly more urgent or more pleasant things. Before I knew it, it was December. I then learned that there was a really good reason I was told of this assignment 3 months early.
It was a myth that I had plenty of time.
There is a word in English that was created to describe what people do when they put off something that they know they should do: Procrastination. The Latin "pro" means forward, and "crastinus" means of tomorrow.
The promise of "another day" is often what allows us to see what is right, good, or worthy today, and push it forward to some proverbial "tomorrow."
Now, there is a type of procrastination that will cost you stress and busyness as you quickly do now what you could have done earlier. That is not what I want to address. It's unpleasant, and sometimes costly, but you will survive that (trust me, I know!).
What you may not survive are the far weightier things that, should you not do them now, you will lose the chance to do them forever.
While this myth-busting principle is mentioned consistently throughout scripture, Jesus tells a story in Luke 16 that I'm praying will heal us of this myth forever. For your sake and the sake of those you love, pray with me that it will.