Procrastination is the action of postponing or delaying something.  It is interesting that dictionaries tend to define procrastination as an action even though it is technically not acting.  The Bible gives plenty of examples of evil deeds which involve not doing the good in God’s sight which one ought to do.  These are often termed as sins of omission.  One can go to hell for sins of omission alone.

Procrastination in general is a bad habit, yet procrastinating in doing something like ordering a pizza for yourself isn’t evil.  However, habitually procrastinating in life is certain to lead to sin before God.  

Proverbs 3:27-28: “Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.  Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.”

Procrastination in doing right before God is the exercise or outworking of unbelief.  Walking in a living faith in Jesus Christ involves diligence in seeking Him- and no one can diligently seek Him who is not diligent to be in line with His authority and to do what is pleasing in His sight.

Hebrews 11:6: “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

Genesis 17:23: “And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.”

Abraham did this in the very same day that God commanded him to do it.  That would have hurt!  

Yet this resolve to believe and trust God, and to thus quickly do what He says even unto suffering and reproach, sums up the spiritual significance of circumcision in the Bible and proves that it is the circumcision of the heart which ultimately matters to God.  God constantly reminded Israel of this since they were so slow to comprehend this (see Jeremiah 9:25-26).  

Choosing to serve the Lord in sincerity and truth means choosing not to procrastinate in doing the right which you ought to do before Him.  

There is also the key matter here of the need to not go back on righteous choices which have been executed (see Jeremiah 34:13-17 for an example of how God rebuked many Israelites for failing along these lines).

When it comes to any and every sin, be sure that you have torn your heart from it altogether.  Some may think they are repentant over a sin when they are really just delaying their intended return to it.  Those who are attached to sin at heart are sinners under God’s wrath. 

Isaiah 1:28: “And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.”

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