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Time to Mow Again

by Jerry Ousley  
4/18/2009 / Christian Living

Spring has sprung, leaves are not leaving but arriving, and flowers are blooming. Spring is here. I'm glad to see the end of winter but I suddenly realized that a much dreaded job is now upon me mowing the lawn. I've written articles before about mowing and if you've kept up with them you know that it's not my favorite thing to do. I can think of an abundant number of jobs I have put off that equally need to be finished but the inevitable is that procrastination does not keep the grass from getting longer and taller.

The good news is that this season we have managed to acquire enough money to buy a new riding mower. It sets my heart all to flutter to think about not having to push the lawn mower all over the yard and to be honest (remember I am a man and we love those new toys) I'm looking forward to breaking in that new yard tractor. I can tell you this: push mowing for the last few years has definitely made me to appreciate the fact that a new riding tractor is a luxury I don't want to do without.

Today is Thursday and we are picking it up today. I should have mowed earlier in the week when the weather was nicer but I just couldn't make myself go out and push mow the yard one more time knowing that today I can be riding it done. So I put it off all week planning to get it finished in record time tonight.

But alas, rain is threatening for the next two days. I've been sitting here in my office at work monitoring the weather outside. It's been pretty good up until now. The time is 2:45 PM. We pick up the mower at 4:30 PM. But some sprinkles have already fallen. Maybe it will hold off. But if it doesn't then I get to take this new riding mower home and park it in the garage until the weather clears enough to do it right.

Why do we do that? We put things off until we can't do them and then sigh with a big, "Oh well. I was going to do it but now I can't." The old clich of the guy with a hole in his roof goes something like this, "When it's raining I can't get on the roof to fix the leak and when the sun's shining it don't leak." That's classic procrastination. Debbie has compared me many times to Paw Kettle: "I'll have to fix that one of these days." Who knows when that day will arrive?

Whether we want to admit it or not we procrastinate with God too. He speaks to our hearts about things we need to take care of in our spiritual lives with a gentle reminder. But how often do we push it back with an excuse we know doesn't hold water. We know that God knows the truth but we justify ourselves anyway.

We need to take care of those things of the soul. I know that when I finally get around to doing what God has been prompting me to do in my heart that I feel much better. I've done that so many times over the years you'd think I'd know better by now and just take care of it to begin with. But I don't always. I'd bet that I'm not the only one.

Let's examine our lives. Let's listen to what God is telling us to take care of and then let's get it done. We'll be better off and we won't have to worry about all those lost opportunities because we put things off. Well, I'll get back to figuring out just how I'm going to get the yard done in the rain.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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