Deadlines

I remember staying up into the early hours during school. Those dreaded deadlines. I had this wretched habit of procrastination, then came the tightness, anxiety, and painful push to meet it. Then failure, and the sulking guilt that followed.

I played the same stupid game at my office job, and I wore myself ragged. Sometime after that I came to realize how important it was to approach tasks, goals, or resolutions in a Gospel mindset. As a believer, the grace of the Gospel must saturate all of life.

So, I blew it. I missed my deadline for blogging by half an hour. Crap. I'm going to throw in the towel. I'm going to swear to myself for a while. I'm going to write myself off as a failure. This is the law speaking--it is false condemnation to those no longer under law.

You are a redeemed child of Christ. This is the most important fact about you believer. Grace is being poured over your head. Take hope and peace in this. Yes, you failed. Learn from it. Learn to do better. Pray for grace, and keep trusting God by carrying on. Keep going.

This is the battle in a big blog project. And this is a dilemma of life: the lies we daily confront and the truth we must choose.

Father, lead my deeper into your grace.