Do It...Do It Now!

My husband and I say it all the time, "Do it...Do it now!" We say it randomly and jokingly, just one of those weird things couples do that no one else understands. We're convinced it's from a movie, but neither of us can remember which one. Ha! I just Googled it. Why didn't I think of that before? FYI...It's from "Predator."  I have to tell you that knowing kind of takes the fun out of it. Maybe I won't tell him. I can just taunt him with the knowledge. There, it's fun again.

I bring this up, because it has also become an internal mantra of mine. Like I stated yesterday, I am a procrastinator, but not about the big stuff. Surprisingly, it's the smallest, most mundane tasks that I put off, leaving them to lurk over me, hiding in the shadows, calling out to me, "You can't relax, you still haven't called the plumber." Random example, but you get the point. It's not big stuff, but I turn it into something huge by putting it off and then dwelling on it for days. Then I do it, and ahhhh...sweet relief. Check it off the list - I am an avid list maker. So at any moment I may have 3 phone calls and 2 errands distracting me from fully listening to what you have to say.

I joke and I down play it now, but it's not always so funny. There have been times when I've put off phone calls for so long that they never got made, and friendships were broken. Thrift store drop-offs ignored to the point that donated items got thrown away, because it became easier to discard the evidence of my apathy than make the effort to correct it. Mindless tasks that I dread so intently get left undone for so long that they build up inside me and I begin to feel like they are crushing the life out of me.

I started this post as a result of finally getting several calls made and the relief that it brought me, but as I'm writing it God is bringing to mind the ultimate phone call that needs to me made. The one in which I must ask for forgiveness again from a friend whom I've put off on more than one occasion. Honestly, it should read, "more times than I can count," but I was afraid that would make me sound like a horrible friend. In the spirit of transparency, however, the latter rendition is the most accurate as is the evaluation that she has been a much better friend to me than I to her.

So, I'm leaving off the other witty banter I had planned for this post and getting on to doing the work of it. I will conclude with this: Whatever task is hanging over you, whatever God is calling you to, but you've put off out of fear, dread, or the unknown Do It...Do It Now! Do the work -

1 Chronicles 28:20
David also said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the LORD is finished.



With Much Love,

Tonya