Many of us at TJN are reading a Proverb every day. This morning I read Proverbs 19 (It is the 19th of the month. With 31 chapters in Proverbs I like to read the chapter that corresponds with the day). Today as I was reading these two verses kinda jumped out at me:Open Road - Where are you running?

Proverbs 19:2&21
It is not good to have zeal without knowledge,
nor to be hasty and miss the way.
Many are the plans in a man’s heart,
but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.

I see people all around me who are running through life at an amazing pace. They are purposing their lives for enjoyment, wanting first and foremost to have fun. So many of them are trying to live out the mantra, “Live today…Die tomorrow”. Others are trying to hard to succeed. They have a ton of passion to get this, purchases that and own more. So they work and spend and then work some more to pay off the credit card bills.

It doesn’t matter how fast you run if you’re running in the wrong direction. Take a moment and ask yourself, “If God was going to give me a fresh start what would my new God centered purpose be?”

Over and over, I see these chances to start fresh. Every now and then something has clicked and I have taken hold of these opportunities for a fresh start with God and with life. I think the one thing that has kept me from engaging the things God would have for me can be found in one simple word: Procrastination.

Procrastination is a strange phenomena. The truth is, you already know the right things to do. You already know them. Not only that, you know the benefits of doing the right things in life. So why don’t you do them? You keep saying, “I’ll do it later…I’ll read the Bible later…I’ll pray more later”. In our culture the thing that keeps us paralyzed in our procrastination (from doing the things God would have for us) is our wildly busy lives. We fill our lives with all kinds of triviality and then wonder why God seems so far off.If you’re a TJNer I hope you will stop this fall and spend the next 4 weeks with me reading a Proverb every day and starting your day with a little prayer. Let’s do this together…Let’s do it today.