NOW is the best time...

I know a lot of us can relate to procrastination. Procrastination is the act of "willfully" delaying the doing of something that should be done, it is the avoidance of important tasks for less important ones, it is the act of doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, or Carrying out less urgent things in place of more urgent ones. 

There’s one thing I am working on and trusting God to help me overcome. I believe that some people out there will be able to relate to this: I’m really terrible with keeping in touch with people. As weird as it may sound, I sincerely think about people but the challenge I have is picking up my phone to call or even send a text message. It is either I come up with some funny excuses or something comes up and then I procrastinate calling.

I did not really understand the consequences of procrastinating until two months ago.  My grandma suffered from a brief illness which led to her death.  She was in the hospital for a while and I didn't get to see or talk to her before she died. We were very fond of each other as I spent most of my teenage years with her. I am one person she would have loved to see or even speak to before her passing. I didn't call her all throughout her stay in the hospital. I was always praying and thinking about her and when I spoke with my mum, I asked how she was doing but I never called her. I felt I had to speak to her but I came up with different reasons: “what if she is sleeping, busy with the doctors and other relatives visiting?” I decided to call her when she was discharged since the illness was not so serious. Well, I thought I had everything figured until news reached me that she had passed. Till date, I still have that guilt. I wished I had called her without really thinking about the “what ifs”.

Alot of us have broken relationships that we need  to fix, family issues we need to resolve, friends we need to reconcile with, but the time is never right to do those things. Don't wait till its too late, NOW is the best time. Even our relationship with God is a mess and we know it but we keep postponing, NOW is the best time. We want to wait till we are out of school to serve God. We want to wait till we get older to serve God. We want to wait till we get married to serve God. But what if? what if it doesn't happen? what if it's too late then? don't put off what is important till later, NOW is the best time.

We should have realised by now that time is not ours and we only have today to make the best of because no one knows tomorrow (except God). So please, do what is right and do it now. Say no to procrastination in your life no matter how little it is. Pray to God to strengthen you and give you Wisdom to manage your time properly.