An easy trap to fall into that hinders submission to God’s will is lacking appropriate sense of urgency. We can be tempted to believe that obedience to God is something to do “later on down the road.”
This attitude pretends to know more about the future than God has revealed. None of us know how much time we have left on earth. Notice James 4:14-15: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Furthermore, none of us even know how much longer the earth will be here. Speaking of the Day of Judgment, on which “the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up” (2 Pet. 3:10), Jesus said “no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only” (Matt. 24:36). He commands in verse 42: Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
May we avoid procrastinating submission to God. When any change needs to be made for us to be right with the Lord, may we urgently obey Him.
– Michael Hickox