Everyone wants a piece of you

Manage your time or it will own you!

Every day we ask, or think, and check multiple times a day... "What time is it?" We surround ourselves with watches and clocks, reminders and alarms... We always want to know what time is it? Important information, but it's always old news, it's always changing, time is always moving to the next tick.

 Instead, I needed to get my minds wrapped around different question! I think we need to move from "what time is it" to asking ourselves "what am I doing with my time?" "What time is it" is a question of schedule, "what am I doing with my time" is a question of purpose.

The hard truth about our time is the value of it to both the world and to God! And no matter how much we want it all we eventually come back to the reality that Life and God want to spend our time differently. Every voice in our lives is pulling us towards some goal, some purpose, some agenda... needing us, wanting us. Yet what we discover is that God is calling us towards a different set of goals, different purposes. Our time is valuable to God because His purpose for our lives is a small part of His greater story!

We are a small part of God's greater story.

The world tells us to live for the moment... enjoy the moment! There is no purpose in life it's all about our success, our enjoyment, our glory! And, the reason why we think our time and our lives should be all about "my" glory OR we begin thinking that there is no purpose... there is no point at all... is because we don't know the context for why God has given us these years on earth. We've never bothered to discover how we fit inside of God's story.

 It's the lure of the moment, of the flash and using that hook sin blinds us to God's will and uses time to keep out of God's will. How? ...by showing us that... There are no lasting benefits from an isolated act accomplished and there are no immediate consequences from an isolated exclusion of the act.

 A long sentence with real teeth. We run once and don't see the weight fall off. We eat a salad instead of a burger... no change. We prayer and don't see an immediate answer. We decide to sit and spend time together as a family but attitudes in the home don't change. One act, one isolated act and nothing happens so we don't think it's going to help. OR we do run, but miss a day and nothing bad happens. We miss a quiet time and nothing bad happens, later on we need to make a hard moral choice and last time we let our guard down spiritually nothing happened so it will be fine! Sin has sold us on the power of the moment!

But the true power of time is not in the moment but in the investment of a path... in our willingness to know God's plan and follow it in every good day and every bad day... for a lifetime.