Devotions
Delivered from procrastination
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth – Proverbs 27:1 (NKJV)
A relative of mine has the following sentence as her email signature: “By
the road later you arrive at the place never.” I don’t know the author of that
quote but what it says is clear and simple. It defines procrastination and the
result of pushing things for tomorrow. I One day I had an interesting
conversation with my daughter about “tomorrow”. When she was still young, I
would choose her clothes every day. So on this particular day, I brought her
what to wear but she did not like it, and we were running late to school. I had
no time to argue, but she insisted and said that if I give her something else
she wanted she will put them on the following day. She said, “I will wear this tomorrow.”
I complied. On the following day, I brought her the same clothes. She looked at
me and without any hesitation, she said, “mom I said I would wear this tomorrow,
not today, is it tomorrow?” I was so angry but also amazed at how she got me. Despite
her impertinence, she left me with a lesson that we all need: tomorrow will
never come. If you keep pushing things to tomorrow, the chance is that you will
never do them.
The Bible tells us not to boast about tomorrow. Don’t take tomorrow as
if it belongs to you. It does not mean “do not plan for the future”. It means
do not put to tomorrow what is supposed to be done today because you have no
idea what that day called tomorrow would bring forth. Tomorrow is already full
for what is supposed to be done then; why do you overload it with today’s work?
A task to do, a call to make, a relationship to mend, a decision to take,
anything that is supposed to be done today, do it today. The truth is that if
you unnecessarily postpone something to tomorrow, it will not find its place
there, so it will be postponed further. It may also be that tomorrow will be
too late even if you do it, so you may be left living with regrets for the
things you could have done but did not. Scripture tells us that “everything
should be done in a fitting and orderly way” (1Corinthians 14:40).
Procrastination is not fitting and is disorderly; it is inefficiency in the flesh;
it leads to nowhere. As the Bible says, there is a time for everything, why put
to another day what is for today?
In my experience as mentor and life coach, I realized that many people
struggle with procrastination and don’t know how dangerous it is. They think it
is a minor weakness, but it is among the top killers of success. I lost many
opportunities due to procrastination. Some of them were big opportunities that
could have changed my life forever. I hate to be reminded of them, and I hate procrastinating.
I’m committed to being healed from it, and every day, I work toward that goal.
I am not there yet, but I feel that I am on track. In one published interview
of a successful manager I read, he said that one of the secrets of his success
is that he never leaves on his desk any work for tomorrow. In other words, what
has to be done today is done today. If you realize that you have been affected
by procrastination in any way, resolve to fight it because otherwise, it will
take you to the place called never.
Posted : Apr 06, 2026