Procrastination is the thief of time

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 17, 25 September 1984, Page 10

Procrastination is the thief of time

It is very easy to procrastinate, to put off doing what should be done NOW. We say, 'Manana — tomorrow will do. I'll have more time later, or, it's not urgent, it can wait.' But can it? What are the results, I wonder, of putting off the doing NOW of that thing? Sometimes our reasons for delaying the doing of something that should be done NOW are very legitimate. Sometimes we are hindered by apparently more important things. Sometimes we simply run out of time. So it would seem that we should, at all times, carefully examine our priorities and make very sure that what we are doing NOW is the important thing we should be doing NOW. I read in Luke 23 that lots of people watched the Lord being crucified, and among them women who had followed Him from Galilee. Then they watched as Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus' body and wrapped it in clean linen, and they apparently then decided to anoint it with spices, but they never actually got around to doing it. They did go home, it is recorded, and did prepare the spices, but then they had to set them aside and make their preparations for the Passover. Then came the Sabbath when no-one worked. So it was the first day of the week before they got back to the tomb to anoint Jesus' body with the spices. Their intentions were good, but it was too late. He was gone and the tomb was empty. And Jesus, who knew all things, knew they would never quite get around to doing it, because it is recorded in Mark 14:8 that Mary anointed His feet with a very precious ointment broken from an alabaster box so that the whole house was filled with the fragrance of it. And Jesus said, when people protested at the terrible waste, 'she is come

aforehand to anoint my body for burial'. So it was Mary who received the blessing of anointing her Lord because she did immediately what God put in her heart to do for her Lord.

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