procrastination(II)..

Joshua De Gracia

Part II

How procrastination can hurt your relationships..

In part I, we talked about how procrastination is one of the devil’s major tools to pull us away from Christ and that delayed obedience is disobedience.

Relationships is one area that procrastination can really devastate your life. Think of a fight, disagreement, misunderstanding, or whatever it may be where you came into conflict with a friend in the past. After whatever it is the two of you got into, you went off in your own and had some sort of resentment, bitterness and ill feelings toward the other person right? Hey, it’s happened in my life.

From that point, what was a good relationship came tumbling downhill because of one conflict. That’s really sad but it’s the reality we live in. The Bible talks about reaping into what we sow. If we are sowing into bitterness with that person, we will continue to have ill feelings toward that person and it will be harder to resolve that friendship. Remember the wedge illustration I used in the first part. What starts out as bitterness can turn into a broken relationship that goes unresolved because you and the other person were unable to work things out. Once there is one shed of bitterness and anger in our hearts, the devil uses that as a foothold (opportunity) to break the love that we once had for that person.

Now what does this have to do with procrastination? Everything. Jesus taught that reconciling an offended brother/sister should be done immediately upon our remembrance of the situation.

Matthew 5:25

“Settle matters quickly.”

To make peace out of the situation and come to a resolution, you shouldn’t wait around. Instead, let those walls of pride down and do what it takes to make it right. One of my favorite verses when it comes to anger is..

Ephesians 4:26

“Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry.”

The longer we let things go, the stronger those feelings of bitterness and anger become.

What relationships do you need to come to a resolution with? A past boyfriend/girlfriend? A friend you into a fight with? Family?

Go and make things right because delayed obedience is disobedience.