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  JUST DO IT!
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Taking immediate action on unwelcome tasks brings a sense of
accomplishment, blessing, and a deeper communion with God.

Topics: "Diligence", "Obedience"
Scripture References: 2 Chronicles 24:5, Proverbs 3:27, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Colossians 3:23, James 4:17

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of promptly
fulfilling our duties and tasks, emphasizing that delaying them only
leads to hindrances in our relationship with God. She highlights the
blessing and satisfaction that comes from completing tasks promptly,
contrasting it with the disturbance and threat of leaving things undone.
Tileston encourages immediate action on tasks we may be avoiding, as the
only way to overcome them is to face them head-on.

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See that ye hasten the matter.

2 CHRONICLES 24:5

AND grant me, Lord, to do,

With ready heart and willing,

Whate'er Thou shalt command,

My calling here fulfilling;

And do it when I ought,

With all my strength, and bless

The work I thus have wrought,

For Thou must give success.

JOHANN HEERMANN

NO unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off
till tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us and done, that we
begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards, and
that the remembrance of unwelcome duties unhesitatingly done is welcome
and pleasant. Accomplished, they are full of blessing, and there is a
smile on their faces as they leave us. Undone, they stand threatening
and disturbing our tranquillity, and hindering our communion with God.
If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink, go
straight up to it, and do it at once. The only way to get rid of it is
to do it.

ALEXANDER MACLAREN

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/just-do-it/
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