I will hurry without delay

You know you’re wrong, but to do right would make it too obvious that you were wrong.

Is this a conundrum that only I struggle with? (Read it the above line over a few times to really get what I'm saying)

So you know those moments in life when you realize you are wrong, or you’re in the wrong, or you aren’t acting the way you should, or you aren’t being who you were meant to be in a situation. You have that moment of realization, and then you think… well if I change now, it’s just going to drastically point to the contrast of how incorrect I was before. And I don’t want to be associated with that incorrectness, so maybe if I just stay even keel, no one will really realize how incorrect I was, and in a few weeks, I’ll really change my tune.

Okay example.

I remember being like 12 and something didn’t go my way, and I’d get all cranky about it. I can remember thinking in my mind, “oh no, now I have to be cranky pretty much all morning.” So it’s like I knew I was going to waste a morning in order to not openly admit I was in the wrong, and stand my ground trying to justify in some way that I could be right.

 I think it’s a bit of stubbornness? I swear I wasn’t a bad child LOL. It wasn’t only stubbornness, it was actually my complete distaste for messing up- that almost caused me to stay in that attitude. It was almost like I hoped that if I stood my ground long enough maybe I could figure out how to justify it and not be wrong. And changing my tune and acting rightly would mean completely recognizing I was previously in the wrong. And more than anything I don’t like acting wrongly. There’s a distinction I want to make here, it’s not so much the distaste in being wrong, like I have an incorrect fact or something like that, but acting wrongly, having the wrong approach or attitude, or treatment of people.  

There’s a verse in the Bible that is so challenging, but true:

I will hurry without delay to keep your commands – psalm 119:60

Wake up call to me.

It’s time to get over ourselves, at all times, and be quick to do what is right, even if it means having to recognize something was wrong.

Be quick to right our wrongs, be quick to take accountability, be quick to do good. We end up being the best version of ourselves, being happy, everything about the result is positive.

Wow. I will hurry without delay to do the right thing, to be the person I am called to be, to treat others the way they should eb treated, to take accountability, to listen, to apologize, to encourage, to give. And the list goes on.

I want you to scroll up and have another look at the image I related with this post. They are track runners. Imagine suiting up to compete in a track race with all that zeal and intention to do good, to live right, to always do the right thing. Like Racing to it. Kind of a funny visual. But I found impacting. Let’s be track runners, training, preparing, and racing, without delay, with zeal and desire to always do the right thing. Like “Oh me, me! I want to do the right thing!”

I will hurry, without delay.

Will you join me?