‘The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!” or, “I will be murdered in the streets!”’ (22:13). There will always be reasons why you should not do that thing that you know you should do. You will always find justification for putting off what you should do now. There are some things, however, that you must do without delay, and you know it. You should never withhold love and care from someone that God has clearly put in your reach to love and care for. You should never shrink back from being generous. You should never put off contacting a person that you know will benefit from your encouragement when it would be so easy to do. You should not postpone practicing hospitality when you know it will be beneficial to someone. These are the simple actions in which the Christian life subsists. The Christian life is not one of big achievements but of regular faithfulness to small works of love. Don’t live with your excuses anymore. Make those calls. Give that money. Invite those people around. Whatever it is, just do it without delay. Perhaps you are stressed about all you must do. Perhaps you are afraid of the sacrifice involved in giving your time and money for others. These fears will always be there. If God’s people obeyed such fears then God’s work would never get done. Do what is good and right. Be diligent in doing God’s work and don’t give yourself excuses to put it off.
Make a list of those things that you have been putting off and do something about them.
Read Proverbs 22:9-16
