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Spiritual Procrastination

by Stephen Rouse

We’ve all done it—put off that paper or that long-term assignment until the last minute, staying up all night to finish just before it’s due. Maybe we even miss the deadline and turn it in late. We receive the just penalty for our procrastination, and then move on to the next assignment, probably making ourselves promises to never do this again. However, I’m afraid that many of us have gotten into the habit of procrastination when it comes to spiritual things.

God has given us enough assignments on this earth to last a lifetime, and we’re commanded to fill our lives with these things—we are to “take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all” (1 Timothy 4:15). Unfortunately, it’s incredibly easy to put off these spiritual tasks day after day, until we’ve become more or less useless in God’s service. Perhaps this is because we’re not thinking about the deadline. No one except God Himself knows when that deadline will come (Matthew 24:36), and I’m afraid many times we scarcely even give thought to the fact that that today could be that deadline. So what now? We must get to work!

Honestly, if you have stop reading this to go accomplish something that you know God wants you to do, do it now. Stop spiritually procrastinating—because God doesn’t accept late work. 

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