Choice Morsels

"Diligent hands will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor"- Proverbs 12:24 (NIV).

Procrastination is a form of laziness. The wisest man in the world basically said you have to work at life: nothing is free, so stop being a sluggard. We know that life won't come knocking on our front door; that we should pursue life, work at it and progress. Solomon also said, "The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied" (13:4); and again, "The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing (20:4). He wrote other Scriptures; obviously, a sluggard's life was deplorable to him. My favorite analogy for overcoming procrastination follows: The events of your day are like a plate of food you have to eat. Some are choice morsels and then some are less than desirable...like a fat frog sitting on your plate. Eat the frog first. Then the rest of the day is nothing but choice morsels. Even Solomon would have agreed.