Creative Avoidance

I was in a class today and the term "creative avoidance" came up.  Actually, it is another term for the old standard "procrastination!"  It is when you know you need to do something, but you get creative and find an excuse to do something else that is more fun.  Instead of calling someone to ask for business, we end up spending time on the computer "researching" so we can answer their questions better when we finally make that call.  Or, maybe we check our email before working on that flyer, because there may be something in our email that will we need to put that flyer together.  We learn to be creative when we are avoiding something we really don't want to do.  

I think we are all guilty of this.  There are just some things we don't like doing or don't want to do at all and we put it off for some of the craziest reasons!  We must learn to do today what is today's task.  If we put it off, then we are postponing the inevitable and possibly making the inevitable task even harder than it would have been in the first place!

What are you avoiding?  I have found that a lot of people avoid God.  They find creative ways to put off checking the innermost part of their soul.  The problem is:  we will have to answer for our soul and the longer we put it off, the more life takes its toll on us and the harder it becomes to reverse the patterns that have been set.  And, there is coming a time when it will be too late.  We only have a certain number of days and we don't even know what that is.  We don't have time to make excuses and leave the weighty matters of life unanswered.

Today is the day.  Whatever it is you are putting off, stop all the creative meanderings, and get it done.