- John 5:30 (NKJV) I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
I’m not sure I have ever heard the word “procrastination” used positively in a sentence. We applaud leaders who can rapidly scope out a situation and make a quick and firm decision.
The slogan of our day is: “First impressions are usually the right impression.”
We have no pundit for the “late bird” – only the “early bird.”
Bottom line, our culture values speed, speed in everything: from driving to making decisions.
However, there are times that the wisest thing you can do is procrastinate: procrastinate in making a judgment.
Do not confuse making a judgment with making a decision. There are way too many people sitting on the sidelines watching the world go by – missing opportunities – because they are too afraid or too lazy to make a decision. That sort of procrastination does nobody any good.
What I am talking about is postponing making a judgment about something or someone. Let me give you a couple of examples…
Let’s suppose that you came home from work one day and your house had burned down. You will need to immediately make some decisions! No doubt there. However, before you make a judgment that this is a horrible event – procrastinate.
I could line witnesses up for a mile that would be willing to testify of events that occurred in their lives that they first thought were absolute tragedies which later proved to be one of the best things that ever happened to them.
The same is true of people. How many times have you made a snap decision about someone and then later discovered that your initial judgment was all wrong?
The point is this: When you make a negative snap judgment about something or someone your judgment shapes the decisions you make.
If you judge that an event is bad or a tragedy then your decisions will be negative and defensive. However, if you judge that an event, through not pleasant, is a part of God’s plan for perfecting you and setting you up for a victory lap then your decisions will be positive and offensive. Your judgment makes all the difference.
In the same way, if you make a negative judgment about someone then your judgment is going to shape the decisions you make in how you are going to interact with them.
Wonder how many friends we’ve lost because we judged someone wrong? Wonder how many times we’ve gossiped and tarnished the reputations of people and brought them grief and sorrow all because we made the wrong judgment about them?
Bottom line, procrastination is not always a bad word…especially when seeking to make a wise judgment.
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