Procrastination

PROCRASTINATION

SCRIPTURES RE PROCRASTINATION

(Gen 19:1 NIV) The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

(Gen 19:2 NIV) "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning." "No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."

(Gen 19:3 NIV) But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate.

(Gen 19:4 NIV) Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom??both young and old??surrounded the house.

(Gen 19:5 NIV) They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

(Gen 19:6 NIV) Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him

(Gen 19:7 NIV) and said, "No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing.

(Gen 19:8 NIV) Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

(Gen 19:9 NIV) "Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

(Gen 19:10 NIV) But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door.

(Gen 19:11 NIV) Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

(Gen 19:12 NIV) The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here??sons?in?law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

(Gen 19:13 NIV) because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

(Gen 19:14 NIV) So Lot went out and spoke to his sons?in?law, who were pledged to marry his daughters. He said, "Hurry and get out of this place, because the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons?in?law thought he was joking.

(Gen 19:15 NIV) With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, "Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished."

(Gen 19:16 NIV) When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the LORD was merciful to them.

(Gen 19:17 NIV) As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!"

(Gen 19:18 NIV) But Lot said to them, "No, my lords, please!

(Gen 19:19 NIV) Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

(Gen 19:20 NIV) Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it??it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared."

(Gen 19:21 NIV) He said to him, "Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of.

(Gen 19:22 NIV) But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it." (That is why the town was called Zoar.)

(Gen 19:23 NIV) By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land.

(Gen 19:24 NIV) Then the LORD rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah??from the LORD out of the heavens.

(Gen 19:25 NIV) Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in the cities??and also the vegetation in the land.

(Gen 19:26 NIV) But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

(Gen 19:27 NIV) Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

(Gen 19:28 NIV) He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land