Time management is a dreaded, and often ignored, spiritual discipline for many of us. We have forgotten that our minutes, hours, and days are precious commodities – gifts from God that can be unwrapped only once. This life is marked by a single choice: who or what will we center our lives around? This choice takes each of us down a path of decisions that shape who we are, what we feel, who or what we value and what we will have accomplished at the end of our days. Looking at the ways in which we spend our time is one of the best ways to assess the posture of our heart. If we spend the majority of our time simply getting through our days trying to find happiness, rather than seeking the face of our heavenly Father that we might receive spiritual joy, we can know that we have yet to surrender our lives fully to our Lord and Savior.
The great thing about the nature of time is that it is completely ours to do with what we will. We can, right now, decide to make the best use of our time according to the purposes of God as revealed to us through Scripture. To center our lives around ourselves or the things of this world leads only to destruction. But, to center our lives around meeting with God fills each moment with the glorious abundance of God's love and peace.
Let us remember that time is wasted unless it is invested in goals and priorities that are rooted in God’s plan.
PRAYER:
Father, I want to follow Your plan for my life. Please lead me and guide me in Your ways. Give me Your wisdom and truth and show me the purpose for which I was created. I will seek You first in my life. I will trust You with my whole heart and do whatever You ask me to do. Amen.
Written by Elizabeth Lutz
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