What’s Cooking: Meeting the ‘Tators’
In continuing the series which is to “introduce” you to the “Tator” family, let me tell you what I am doing. I am taking words that has “Tator” in them and talking about them. Members of that family are:
Agitator, Commentator, Dictator, Hesitater, Imitator, Meditator, Navigator, Procrastinator, and Spectator.
In my last article I discussed Dictator, today our discussion is centered around the Hesitater. 1 a. To be slow to act, speak, or decide. b. To pause in uncertainty; waver.
2. To be reluctant.
3. To speak haltingly; falter.
This word actually doesn’t belong in this family because of its spelling, but I wanted to include it.
Rarely do we think of ourselves as being a hesitater, yet most of us are. If there is a particular unpleasant job or duty facing us we may hesitate for a time perhaps thinking that in time the task might look brighter. Even today as we go on with our daily life it is often difficult to decide which “road” to travel. Making right decisions takes wisdom.
Of course there are many times that hesitation should be employed. Our young people are tempted every day by drugs and other things they should not get in to. These temptations should be avoided at all costs. The more we yield to a temptation the more calloused our conscience will become. The next time the temptation presents itself before you it won’t be as hard for you to not yield to that temptation. And as time goes by, your temptation will become easier and easier to yield to.
To most of us there isn’t enough hours in the day to do the things that we think are necessary without taking on things that are worthless. I guess the trick is to determine what is necessary. That determination can only be had through what we value most in life. Even then what we determine as most important in our daily life may not be so important after all. We waste so must time with the unnecessary things of life that we hesitate getting on with the things that are really necessary.
And if we should sit and ponder the things that we have not done we may become discouraged.
The guide to true happiness is the Bible. A Godly life is a happy life. It is a life of great hope and security. To think otherwise, there is no hope and no security. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Col 3:17