Salvation & Grace
I keep telling myself I will get serious about God later, once work settles down and life is less chaotic. Is that a reasonable plan?
“Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”
Proverbs is practical wisdom collected for young people stepping into adult life, and this line is aimed squarely at planning built on assumptions. It is not a threat about sudden death. It is an observation that the future is not yours to schedule. The chaos you are waiting to see clear is not a phase before real life begins, it is the ordinary condition of a life.
“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)”
Paul is quoting Isaiah back to a church he loves and has argued with, urging them not to let the grace they have received drift away into nothing. The word he repeats is now. He writes as a man whose own turning came suddenly and inconveniently, in the middle of a career he had no intention of interrupting. There is rarely a tidy moment for this.
A path forward
Pick a date this week rather than a season. Give God twenty minutes on a specific day and start reading one of the Gospels.
Name the thing you are actually waiting for and ask yourself honestly whether it has a finish line. Most of them turn out not to.
Tell one person that you intend to take this seriously, and ask them to check on you in a month. An intention with a witness survives far longer than one without.
Closing verse
“While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.”
- Hebrews 3:15
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