Do It Now!
Jesus Christ is laying down this principle – Do what you know you
must do, now, and do it quickly; if you do not, the inevitable process
will begin to work and you will have to pay to the last farthing in pain
and agony and distress. God’s laws are unalterable; there is no escape
from them. The teaching of Jesus goes straight to the way we are made
up.
To see that my adversary gives me my rights is natural; but Jesus says that it is a matter of eternal and imperative importance to me that I pay my adversary what I owe him. From our Lord’s standpoint it does not matter whether I am defrauded or not; what does matter is that I do not defraud. Am I insisting on my rights, or am I paying what I owe from Jesus Christ’s standpoint?
Do the thing quickly, bring yourself to judgment now. In moral and spiritual matters, you must do it at once; if you do not, the inexorable process will begin to work. God is determined to have His child as pure and clean and white as driven snow, and as long as there is disobedience in any point of His teaching, He will prevent none of the working of His spirit. Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience. No wonder the Spirit so strongly urges to keep steadfastly in the light!
"Agree with thine adversary quickly." Have you suddenly turned a corner in any relationship and found that you had anger in your heart? Confess it quickly, quickly put it right before God, be reconciled to that one – do it now.
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I wasn't thrilled with Chamber's entry for today. I have a tenancy to procrastinate. Whether it is in house projects, spiritual areas, or work requirements, I have convinced myself that I work better under a deadline. Pressure gets the best from me. Consequently, I often find myself up until all hours of the morning working on a project or anxiously scanning past emails afraid I have missed an important deadline. Papers get piled because I will work on them later and books are half read, having convinced myself I will finish them the next rainy day.
Do it now. What a great life maxim. Things left until later get layered onto the future's must-do's. Tomorrow is already full of projects and deadlines. There is no logical reason to stack today's requirements on tomorrow's list. One thing I have learned over the years, procrastinating does not complete. Nothing I have ever put off has ended up getting done by the magic project elves. There are no deadline fairies completing what I have procrastinated.
To see that my adversary gives me my rights is natural; but Jesus says that it is a matter of eternal and imperative importance to me that I pay my adversary what I owe him. From our Lord’s standpoint it does not matter whether I am defrauded or not; what does matter is that I do not defraud. Am I insisting on my rights, or am I paying what I owe from Jesus Christ’s standpoint?
Do the thing quickly, bring yourself to judgment now. In moral and spiritual matters, you must do it at once; if you do not, the inexorable process will begin to work. God is determined to have His child as pure and clean and white as driven snow, and as long as there is disobedience in any point of His teaching, He will prevent none of the working of His spirit. Our insistence in proving that we are right is nearly always an indication that there has been some point of disobedience. No wonder the Spirit so strongly urges to keep steadfastly in the light!
"Agree with thine adversary quickly." Have you suddenly turned a corner in any relationship and found that you had anger in your heart? Confess it quickly, quickly put it right before God, be reconciled to that one – do it now.
http://utmost.org/
I wasn't thrilled with Chamber's entry for today. I have a tenancy to procrastinate. Whether it is in house projects, spiritual areas, or work requirements, I have convinced myself that I work better under a deadline. Pressure gets the best from me. Consequently, I often find myself up until all hours of the morning working on a project or anxiously scanning past emails afraid I have missed an important deadline. Papers get piled because I will work on them later and books are half read, having convinced myself I will finish them the next rainy day.
Do it now. What a great life maxim. Things left until later get layered onto the future's must-do's. Tomorrow is already full of projects and deadlines. There is no logical reason to stack today's requirements on tomorrow's list. One thing I have learned over the years, procrastinating does not complete. Nothing I have ever put off has ended up getting done by the magic project elves. There are no deadline fairies completing what I have procrastinated.
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