Every day is important. Every day is special. Every day has its own achievements, its own failures, its own joy and sorrow. A day is a time to work, a time to enjoy, a time to dream, a time to hope, to pray and worship. We should cherish each day; there will never be another just like it.

Time is spoken of as being “spent.” It is a true representative of what time is. We have only so much and it’s up to us how it is spent. Actually, we don’t know how much we have in the bank, we only know there’s enough for today. “Go to now, ye that say today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain: whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.” There are no guarantees, folks. Whatever we plan to do we should do today.

It is significant that God never gave a command on which we cannot start today. We needn’t wait for any further information, for any further motivation, for any further consideration. We just start. We begin. Now. Today.

Everyone in the congregation has probably already purposed to do some things for the coming Southside Lectures. Maybe you’ve decided to take some brochures and pass them out at your work or in your neighborhood. Well, what are you waiting for? Maybe you plan to write a short note to Brethren Caldwell, Durham, Walton and Warnock, or Stevens to let them know that they are on your mind and in your prayers. Well, what’s wrong with doing that right now? Perhaps you plan to have some of the men for a dinner. Why not let it be known? Maybe you had plan to go to the Elders to find out what service you might perform in the interest of the coming program. Why wait? Go ahead and ask.

Procrastination is a problem. For all of us. Whatever it is, it’s easy to let it go until tomorrow—and then tomorrow—and then again, to tomorrow. Especially if it’s hard. First thing you know our good intentions are wiped away and what we had thought to do vanishes. Resolve is for today, not tomorrow. Resolve is for now, not later. What you do today is because of a deliberate choice to do so. Today.

“Take no thought for tomorrow” has a reason. You can’t do anything much about tomorrow. It’s not here yet. But you can take thought for today. What happens tomorrow is not within the realm of our knowledge. But what happens today certainly is. Short range goals are imminently more important than long range ones, because you can usually accomplish the former while you don’t ever know about the latter. The “convenient season” seldom comes. And if it does, it may have been so cheapened by repeated delays that it no longer has much meaning.

If the Southside Lectures are to be what they ought to be we must begin to work on them today. Right now. Not tomorrow or Tuesday, not “next week sometime.” Now. There are things we can do to help today. And because we can, we must.

We can decide to pray every day. Every day. Maybe even several times a day. If we believe that “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much,” then let’s get with doing it. Today. Prayer helps. But prayer is not for “next week sometime,” it’s for right now.

We can make ourselves available. Christianity is not convenient. But neither was the death of Christ. It takes work to be a good Christian. Hard work. And if you would do your part, you have to start right now. Today. Not “next week.”

You can make a difference. You can invite people. If they don’t come, that’s their fault. If they never get invited, that’s your fault. You can pass out brochures in your neighborhood. You don’t ever know, folks. One thing is sure, they won’t come if they don’t know about it. You can talk about it, let folks know you’re looking forward to it and planning, day by day, to be a part of the occasion yourself. It shows them you think it’s important.

You can decide today that you’re going to be at every service. You don’t have to wait until the day before the lectures start to make that decision. You can decide that right now. Today. Not “sometime next week.” You can decide right now that you’re going to let folks know where you’ll be June 19th through the 22nd. Will you do that? Right now? Today?

If you decide right now regarding all these matters, you’re far more apt to get them done. If you wait, you’re liable to never get around to it. Deciding right now might be tantamount to deciding where you’re going to spend eternity. It’s your choice. Make it a day to day one.