What Are You Waiting For?

 

Each day, every day has a beginning and an end, that goes without saying, yet many people are going about each day as if it is just one more day. In reality, it is the only day we have been given that we can be guaranteed we will have. Obviously, we can't go back to yesterday, and if we are waiting until tomorrow to get here before we move ourselves to action, we may be waiting on a train that might just never arrive. 

As I meet with God each morning I make sure I thank Him for the gift of one more day. A gift that should be used to its utmost the day you receive it. One more day, I thank God for giving me one more day, but is it the day or is it the opportunities that this unique day from any other day in my life holds? If we get right down to it the gift of one more day should be the offer to serve others, do right instead of wrong, raise up someone less fortunate than myself, or even just as simple as a "Do unto others as you would have them do to you" mentality. If you hold back what God gave you to offer today I guess my question to you would be "What are you waiting for?"

In I Corinthians 3:6-8 Paul explains it like this, "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor." You see we all have a purpose and it is our responsibility to fulfill that purpose each day that we are blessed to have been given. When I wake up and say thank you for this day that you have given me God, then I have to also be saying what is it that I need to do today to fulfill your plan for this day you have given me? Maybe I am the one that needs to plant a seed of hope for a friend? Could it be that today I am supposed to help someone in need on the side of the road with a flat tire? What about encouraging a child? Doing a favor for an elderly neighbor? Making a call to someone just to let them know that you were thinking about them? Maybe you were given today to plant a seed.

Or maybe you were given today to nurture that seed. Joining a non-profit's efforts to feed those without a roof over their heads, or volunteering to coach a youth league team, or maybe your watering can is filled with opportunities to get involved in a ministry at your church that you have just been "too busy" to support. Whatever it is that you were called to get involved in is my question would have to be, "What are you waiting for?

God has given you today, you were given this day for a specific purpose that you were born to accomplish today. God didn't say you have to plant the seed today and He sure didn't say you have to water those seeds that have already been planted, but make no qualms about it He did give you this day. You have to ask yourself, what am I waiting for? What am I waiting on? Today is the day, go out and commit to fulfilling your purpose each day that God gives you to live. What are you waiting for?                          "And whatsoever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." Colossians 3:17 

Coach Carter