How To Miss A Blessing

They immediately left their nets and followed Him.

Matthew 4:20

When writer, congresswoman, and ambassador Clare Booth Luce was seventy-five, she was asked whether she had any regrets. She said, “Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, and I remember a girlhood friend of mine who had a brain tumor and called me three times to come and see her. I was always too busy, and when she died, I was profoundly ashamed. I still remember that after fifty-six years.”

Is there anything you have been putting off that, once the opportunity has passed, you will regret not having done? Procrastinating about service to others is a double-edged sword: not only do we fail to extend a blessing, but we miss the blessing that comes with being a blessing! Instead of a double blessing, procrastination results in no blessings at all.

When Jesus was calling His disciples, the original twelve left “immediately” to follow Him. Later, others said, “Let me first go and [do this or that important thing]” (Luke 9:59, 61). Guess who ended up changing the world and being blessed in the process? If God has put an opportunity for service in front of you, don’t fail to take it—to bless and be blessed at the same time.

Remember, today is the day you thought about yesterday when you said, “I can do that tomorrow.”