Do it NOW!

JUST THINKING!

Adapted from a Devotional from "The Word for You"

"Be sure to do what you should" Galatians 6:4 NLT

"You can only pray, plan and prepare so long. Sooner or later you MUST step out in faith and act. In the Old Testament the children of Israel came to the Red Sea with the Egyptians in hot pursuit. The Israelites began calling out to the Lord in prayer. However, the Lord God instructed them, "Go, forward". There is a time to pray, a time to plan and a time to prepare. BUT, then it comes time we must ACT.

The chinese have a saying, "He who deliberates too long before taking a step, will spend his whole life on one leg".

The reason many do not get started is that they focus on tomorrow rather than today. The Bible says, "today is the day of salvation". In James 4:13, 14 (NLT) it says, "look here, you people say 'tomorrow we going to a certain town...we will do business there and make a profit.' How do you know what will happen tomorrow? For your life is like the morning fog-it's here for a little while, then it's gone."

The idea of tomorrow can be very seductive, but the promise it holds is often false. It's starting that stops us. Dawson Trotman, founder of the Navigators observed, "The greatest time wasted, is the time thinking about getting started." The hardest part of writing a letter is penning the first line. I can say the same. The hardest part of writing "Yourbibleboost" is just STARTING. The hardest part of making a tough phone call is picking up the phone and punching in the first number. The hardest part of writing an email is pulling up the email address and writing the first words.

So how do we overcome and "do what we should" as Galatians suggest...

DO IT! TODAY! Today...NOW is the time, this is the place and we are the people.

START!

I am praying for you and your family,

Leonard