First off, thank you to everybody who has donated to help me reach my first goal! It came down to the wire (literally like 2 hours before midnight when the deadline was). I appreciate all of you and your efforts in supporting me to go on the World Race! To the anonymous donors who have helped, I don’t know who you are, but thank you! My next deadline will be at the end of September and I need to be at $10,000 in the account to accomplish this goal, I have no doubts that we will accomplish this! Please continue to pray for provision and if you would like to donate, I would appreciate any and all gifts!
Now onto the topic that’s on my mind – Procrastination!
Like pretty much every college-aged kid that I know, I have struggled with procrastination, like hardcore… If I was assigned some homework, I would see when the due date was and plan to work on everything the night before. If I needed to have my room clean by Monday, you better bet that I would be up ‘til the wee hours Sunday night getting my room cleaned. I always wanted to push everything back to the last minute. Pretty much anything and everything that I was assigned to do, I would procrastinate, it didn’t matter what the task was.
I remember the night where I knew I was supposed to apply for the World Race. I stayed up late that night and was putting all the pieces together, I was thinking, “oh yea, I can just do everything tomorrow, I have done work with AIM before, so my application will be quick and easy…” As that thought entered my mind, I remember feeling the Lord nudge me and say, “Well if it will be quick and easy, why not just do it now?” I promptly whipped out my laptop, went to the World Race website and clicked ‘apply.’ It ended up taking me like 3 hours to complete. I was so annoyed, I thought it would be so easy. I was frustrated, yet relieved. The task was completed, I didn’t have to worry about it anymore, I felt really good about it. What was the point of my wanting to push it off if there was so much satisfaction in completing it? This trend of procrastination needed to end and that was just the start. I woke up the next morning and felt awesome, I did the thing, now I don’t need to worry about it anymore, cool!
I was listening to a sermon recently regarding this topic, the speaker was preaching about Moses and Pharaoh. When the plagues fell upon Egypt, the first was when all the water was turning to blood, now that’s friggin gross, but not as gross as the second plague. The second plague was when the whole country was covered in frogs, they were in the sheets of your bed, in your ovens, in your bathrooms, like legit everywhere around you. I don’t know about you, but I feel like I would have such a hard time showering if my shower were covered in frogs. I would have a difficult time eating if my kitchen were filled with frogs, I would want those frogs gone ASAP! Obviously, the people of Egypt were not happy with this. When Moses approached Pharaoh about freeing the slaves and ending the plague of frogs, it should’ve been a no brainer, let’s get rid of the frogs.. see ya later, slaves! Our God can do anything and everything in an instant. With the snap of His fingers, the work is completed, the frogs could disappear and everything could go back to normal, no biggie. Moses told Pharaoh that he can pick the time and day that the frogs would be gone, and Moses would pray to God and the frogs would be gone. Do you know what Pharaoh’s reply was?! “Tomorrow.” (Exodus 8:10) Now, I don’t know what kind of nut Pharaoh was, but if I could have those frogs gone immediately, why would I wait until tomorrow?
I still struggle with procrastination at times. I haven’t even sent out my support letters for this trip yet, I have no reason not to, I just haven’t done it. I know once I do that I will feel relieved, there would be less stress over hanging over my head, but I keep choosing to say, “tomorrow.” We serve a God who can do anything immediately if He so pleased to, but oftentimes, when we are asking Him for something or expecting something out of Him, we think that tomorrow is the best time for it. If we constantly push everything off to tomorrow, we will never do anything today. So today, when I finish writing this blog, I’m going to mail out some of my support letters and I’m going to clean my room, because if I don’t do it today, I’ll do it tomorrow, or the next day, or the next day… So I’m just going to do it today, and I encourage you to do whatever it is that you’re putting off, today.
I leave for training camp this Monday, which is crazy! I can’t believe that it’s so close. I am excited to start learning more and beginning this journey with my teammates, so please keep me and my team in your prayers over the coming weeks!
If you would like to partner with me on my journey, I would feel honored to receive your gifts, just hit donate up at the top of this page, anything and everything helps! If you would like to contact me, my email is [email protected], my Instagram is @Miiggy.Smalls, or you could hit me up on Facebook, phone call or text!
Thanks for reading!
Much love,
Miguel Gonzalez
