“I TELL YOU, NOW IS THE TIME OF GOD’S FAVOR, NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION.” —2 CORINTHIANS 6:2, NIV
When you hear the truth—and you know it, because it confirms your deepest instincts, or the evidence surrounding you, or it resonates in your heart and mind, act upon it now.
Don’t wait.
Don’t be like the man who had great ideals, great intentions. He was going to be all that a mortal should be tomorrow.
No one would try harder than he tomorrow. Each morning, he stacked up the letters he would write tomorrow.
Each day, he lamented how busy he was and swore to visit that old friend tomorrow.
He would reconcile with his estranged brother tomorrow. He will visit his elderly parent tomorrow.
He would take the time to grow closer to God tomorrow.
The whole world would have known him if he had ever seen tomorrow. But the fact is, he died and faded from memory, and all that was left when he left this earth was the mountain of things he intended to do tomorrow.
This is the time of year when old friends, relatives, past hurts, and sorrows pull at us, haunt us, and hang over us. The friend we have lost, the loved ones we have hurt. Now, during this poignant season with the potential for so much healing, is the time to tend to things.
Something about the Christmas season brings all those memories to the forefront of our minds.
Don’t ignore the tug of the Holy Spirit if you are being nudged to reconcile with someone or with God.
“Now listen,” wrote the apostle, “you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city…Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow…If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them” (James 4:13-17, NIV).
Don’t put “now” off until tomorrow.
