Avoiding God

Do you avoid the good stuff, dear one? 

I am not a procrastinator, but I used to be. I had dread: that feeling of must I? when things felt pressing, but I put them off anyway. It makes a person feel pretty badly about themselves with all that putting off until tomorrow, or the next day, or next month, for all that can be completed today. 

Here is a put off till later list you might be able to relate to when procrastinating prevails: 

1. Cleaning bathrooms

2. Doing laundry

3. Buying groceries

4. Pulling weeds

5. Paying bills

6. Booking a dental appointment

7. Clearing out the garage, drawers, and closets, of items no longer in use

8. Booking car maintenance

9. Exercising

10. Counting calories

11. Exercising... oh wait, I already said this one, didn't I?!

Negative results can look like this:

1. Sinks, showers, and toilets, become gross me out science projects with things growing in there

2. You run out of clean underwear and start looking at dingy items as options

3. You fast food drive through and immediately feel the affects of rancid oil after consumption

4. Your property looks like a sanctuary for wild critters

5. Plaque build-up feels like a fur coat when you run your tongue over your teeth

6. Your garage, drawers, and closets, are stuffed full with items you don't recall buying, and have you wondering how they got there in the first place

7. The warning signals on your dash show up more frequently, and you become confident that your next visit to the shop will require taking out a mortgage for repair payment

8. You get thick around the middle and those shorts you wore last year, refuse to travel past your thighs

9. The thickness around your midsection is now in your hips, buttocks, and man alive, your shirts and underwear seem to have shrunk

10. You just feel so darned tired and lethargic all of the time, and you would prefer to not ever clean your bathrooms, do your laundry, walk the isles of the grocery store or bother cooking. You decide to turn a blind eye on the take-over weeds in your gardens, suffer a sore tooth, let the car, your mid-section, and the rest of your body, go all rusty and useless, and ignore the massive caloric intake in favour of the ease of eating out. Exercise is for fitness nuts, and you ain't no nut!

Now think with me, of how good it feels to take care of the business at hand, as projects and must do items present themselves. Your day has a start, middle, and end, and what you do with your time is a statement about what you deem important and valuable. How do you start and end your days, dear one?

I am leading you to where I want you and I to go together. Perhaps your relationship with God is the very thing that you have ignored, neglected, put off, put on the back burner, with lots of procrastination placed between you and him. Are you avoiding the good stuff? Are you avoiding time with God?

There are two must have and read books, and they are:

The King James Bible & Matthew Henry's Commentary on The Bible 

There are two must do activities, and they are: 

Thanking God & praying

Your day is entirely a waste of time, if you have not spent time in God's word, and if you have not praised and worshipped him. I make these statements confidently, because they are truer than true, and perhaps you already agree with me? Your list of things to do, pale in comparison to spending value added to your life time, adoring God, honouring God, obeying God... all of your life will fall into perfect place, when you keep your focus on his will and live his way. 

There is a peace that comes from being in relationship with God that you and I quite simply, cannot acquire or ascribe to, in our everyday endeavours. Sure, we must work and take care of our abodes and the vessels that house our respective souls, but what good is all that is material, if the spirit is starved to death from utter neglect? What is the point of life without God, is my real question. 

You get to answer this question, dear one. 

What is the point of life without God?

With God, the possibilities are endless. Without God, there is the drudgery of worldly work and worldly pleasures, without the promise of eternal bliss in heaven with the Saviour of the world. How very repetitive and boring life is, minus the glory of God to illume the mind and give hope to sojourners travelling and travailing on planet earth. 

1 Chronicles 28:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. 

It is a bore to think of life without God, and I hope you have come to the same conclusion. Don't procrastinate if this is what you have been doing. Don't put off that quintessential conversation you have been meaning to have with your Maker. Talk to him first thing in the morning, and then at noon time, and before you drift off to sleep, and see how everything brightens, how everything sounds and tastes better too, and how much strength you have to get your work done, because he is the one empowering you. 

Avoiding God makes you a shadow of yourself... a fading shadow of who you could be in Christ. Avoid him not - go and reconcile with the Redeemer, and you shall see how brilliant life can be in his eternal presence. 

P.S: Our outsides match our insides. Whatever you are not taking care of now, will become a hot mess in short order. Relationships are more valuable than places and things, and your relationship with God is the most important one you will ever have.