Someday Is Today

Have you ever heard yourself thinking things like this: Someday I will get that done. Someday I will clean out the garage. Someday I will spend more time with my family. Someday I will serve at my local church. Someday my dream will come true.


SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY!


Someday is out there somewhere.


Procrastinators love someday. Practitioners of procrastination enjoy putting off until tomorrow what they should be doing today. Someone said “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” The problem with keeping up with yesterday is that important things do not get done today.     
    
Someday is often the enemy of success because it robs us of what we should be doing today. What is someday anyway? Where is it? Which day in the future is someday? Someday usually ends up being no day.


The truth is: Someday never comes because someday is today. Today’s “To Do” lists are to be done today, not tomorrow.


In God’s Kingdom, someday is always today. There is no procrastination in God’s redemptive plan. Our verse for the week is plain: SALVATION IS TODAY. Not tomorrow, or someday, but TODAY. 


“For He says, ‘At the acceptable time I listened to you, and on the day of salvation I helped you;’ behold, now is the acceptable time, behold now is the day of salvation.”
II Corinthians 6:2


Paul tells us that God listens to us and helps in “the day of salvation” which is today. The gift called today comes from the hands of a good, gracious and generous God. I am so thankful that He is there each day to meet our needs. One day at a time.


The word the Word uses is “now.” And “now” means now! “Now” is today, not tomorrow. Ever since Jesus died on the Cross and rose from the dead, TODAY is the day of salvation. Redemption is finished. God’s restoring work is complete. His great love for us has been manifested in His Son.


Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ is ours for the asking. Today is the day of salvation. Someday has arrived. Now, today, is the acceptable time to accept Jesus. Now is the time to be born-again and live for the Lord Jesus Christ.
When it comes to salvation, the Lord exhorts man to never put off until tomorrow what can happen today.


People who have been stirred in their soul by the love God and put off receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior are taking a significant risk. Someday may be too late when salvation is TODAY! Reader, have you received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior or are you putting Him off for another day?


Abundant life in Christ (John 10:10) is to be lived TODAY. Today is the day where “we walk by faith and not by sight” (II Corinthians 5:7). Today, not someday, is the acceptable and appropriate time to do what God has called us to do. We are not to put off until someday what the Lord has put on today’s agenda for us.
 
Satan loves someday.


Someday can be an easy excuse for doing nothing today. Someday can turn into a long string of somedays. Before we know it, someday is no day and we lose. The devil rejoices when God’s people live for someday instead of today.


Think about it. If you do not do this day what God intended you to do, today’s opportunity could be lost forever. That is a loss none of us can afford.


What do you need to do today that you keep putting off until someday? NOW is God’s time for you and me. TODAY is the day to go and grow forward in our faith walk with Jesus.


Do today what you would do someday. Then when someday comes the task is already done! At the end of today, make this day a “did that, done that, I have the T-shirt Day.”   


Decide to turn from someday and someway to today and His way.


ASSIGNMENT: Take one simple task that you are putting off for someday and accomplish it TODAY. That’s right, do it today. Do whatever you need to do to cross this item off your to do list. You will be glad you did! (And so will others affected by this task!).


By the way, how is your garage looking???


“This is the day that the Lord has made; therefore, I will be glad and rejoice in it.”
                                                 Psalm 118:24


“You choose this day who you will serve...”                          Joshua 24:15a


A Word For Your Week: Do today what you would like to do someday.