Redeeming or Rotting?

"...making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Eph 5:16-17

J. Kenneth Bassett writes-
On July 4, 1776, the American Colonists' Declaration of Independence from Britain was adopted. If had been 442 days since the first shots of their revolution were fired. It would be another seven years and 65 days before the Treaty of Paris would be signed, formally acknowledging the United States of America as a nation. Talk about no respect!

Of all the signers of that venerable document, only one was a preacher - John Witherspoon, a representative from New Jersey. When John Adams brought up the idea of a declaration, Witherspoon shouted, "New Jersey is plump for independence!"

In no mood for a protracted fight, New York's John Aslop complacently interrupted, "Oratory is fine, but we are not ripe for it." The quick-witted Witherspoon retorted, "We are more than ripe for it. Some of us are in danger of rotting for want of it!"

Witherspoon was probably motivated by an ingrained verse he had so often used in his sermons, "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Eph 5:16

"In the course of human events..." It was necessary for these patriots to seize the moment.

In the spiritual battle of the ages, are you waiting for some more opportune moment to go to battle, or even just enlist in the Lord's army? The longer you put it off, the more difficult it becomes to seize the moment for God.