“I’m going on a diet, tomorrow” are the famous words of our son-in-law, after he has reached his capacity of Margaret’s good cooking (she’s the best in the brotherhood) at Christmas and Thanksgiving. Of course, tomorrow is always the very distant future in his dieting plans. So, what is wrong with dieting today? – today would be a serious commitment and there is too much good food still to be sampled.
For some folks today’s tasks keep mounting, because they are always delayed until tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, today will have passed and today becomes yesterday with nothing accomplished – the intended deeds keep mounting and it becomes depressing, even to think about them. Then when day-after-tomorrow comes, tomorrow is gone, today is day-before-yesterday and one needs to take a vacation to get away from the stress of worked piled up.
It is no wonder that some feel the world closing in around them when they keep putting off work till a tomorrow that never comes. “Someday,” they say, “I will get busy and get all this done.” “Right now I need to get out and relax – things are about to get me down.” The more they relax, the more the works piles up and the more the works stacks up, the more they have to spend time getting away from it to relax to keep from having a nervous breakdown. Tomorrow becomes an endless string of yesterdays.
We should have a strong sense of urgency for doing things today – not only because procrastination becomes a pattern of a non-productive life but, also, because today is all we have. James says of our life – “For it is even as a vapour that appeareth for a little time, then vanisheth away (4:14). The Hebrew writer urges disciples to “…exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin,” (3:13). And Jesus said of tomorrow, “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,” (Matthew 6:33).
Many people hasten their demise by worrying about work that needs to be done but few work themselves to death. – Jim R. Everett
“I’m going on a diet, tomorrow” are the famous words of our son-in-law, after he has reached his capacity of Margaret’s good cooking (she’s the best in the brotherhood) at Christmas and Thanksgiving. Of course, tomorrow is always the very distant future in his dieting plans. So, what is wrong with dieting today? – today would be a serious commitment and there is too much good food still to be sampled.
For some folks today’s tasks keep mounting, because they are always delayed until tomorrow. When tomorrow comes, today will have passed and today becomes yesterday with nothing accomplished – the intended deeds keep mounting and it becomes depressing, even to think about them. Then when day-after-tomorrow comes, tomorrow is gone, today is day-before-yesterday and one needs to take a vacation to get away from the stress of worked piled up.
