Why Wait

Why Wait

Dear Champions,

The short excerpt is by Ron Hutchcraft, and the Scripture is Isaiah 55:6 ...seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

A storm that roared through our area got so intense that a tree as big around as a car came crashing down on a house in our community. It went all the way through the roof and the house, and it did not take long for the insurance adjuster to come by and give the owner a check to get the damage repaired. She called a contractor to come over for an estimate, and when he asked if she wanted him to do the work, she told him she wanted another estimate first. He warned her that there was more rain in the forecast, but she was determined. She had a similar conversation with a second contractor. Then the big rain came and, of course, poured into her house. That is when she called a third and fourth contractor; both of whom gave her much higher estimates than the first two. Finally, she called in that first contractor who gave her a new estimate as high as the others. He said, You waited so long that the rain came and did a lot more damage, so getting things fixed is going to cost a lot more.

It is amazing how we have a tendency to put off repairs that need to be made in our marriage, with our child, with our parents, in a broken relationship, or in dealing with a problem that we do not want to confront. We keep thinking about how much it is going to cost to try to fix things, and we put it off a little bit longer.

Problem: the longer you wait to repair what is broken, the more expensive it is going to be. This is the easiest and cheapest it is ever going to be to make it right, and one day it is going to get so bad that the price of repairs may be more expensive than you ever dreamed.

Postponing the Christ who died for your sin gets more and more expensive; more and more days wasted without the love and the meaning you were made for. We are far away from God because our sin has cut us off from the one person we cannot afford to live without , and I urge that you will not postpone repairing your relationship with God one more day. Getting this settled brings the greatest peace in the world.

Champions, have a great week!-David Vining