Just thought I'd share a few thoughts concerning what the Lord has been talking to me about these last few weeks. I have noticed that if I listen to what my brain is thinking - that is a challenge - I 'hear' some thoughts that aren't mine but are definitely God's and if I pay attention to those thoughts - that is even a greater challenge - I learn something valuable.
This thought is on time. What a precious commodity time is. Once it is gone it is gone. You can't go back and get the time you wasted or maybe used unwisely just like you can't take back words that you have spoken. All you can do is appologize and try to make right what you have done wrong.
Time is short. We only have so many hours to the day and days to the week, etc. And soon they will be gone! What I have been seeing is how time keeps going. You can't stop time. You can only keep up with it and be prepared for the time that is coming - like a test you have to take in a day or a message you have to speak in a month or a meeting you have to lead in an hour!!!
Time can be your master or you can manage the time God gives you. I feel like time actually pushes me and no matter what I do I can't slow it down! There are some moments in my life I would like to last forever and others I would like to speed by.
BUT what I am leaning is that if I place my time in God's hands He will use it for my good. There will be times of blessing and times of preparation and times when I can just sit and soak in what is going on around me.............but I have to determine to make the most of all the time I have! Like doing this blog today - it is taking me time and I need to be getting dressed so I can go to work - and I have to think about how I am going to work at 2 places at once and still get my house ready for my in-laws to arrive at 4 this afternoon!!!! Time - never enough - but right now I am doing with this moment what I know God told me to do!!!
Have a wonderful day - and be blessed with the time you are given!!!
3 comments:
Great post! God has definitely been speaking to me about my time, too. I really don't want to waste it on pointless things. Sometimes it is good to let it just go by a little and be wasted (for the sake of rest - which is actually not a waste at all), but other times I could be filling it more wisely.
BTW - LOVE getting this by email now! Thanks for setting that up for me!! Saves me some TIME. hehe
Time . . . Time . . . choices I must make
Do this, do that, or do nothing
My agenda, God’s agenda
MY time plan is in place!
Time . . . Time . . . choices I must make
Interruptions . . . people, places, things
But what about MY time plan!??!!
Interruptions . . . God opportunities or distractions??
Lord, let me know the difference.
Time . . . Time . . . choices I must make
You, Lord, know the number of my days
Help me to be a good steward
Of the time you have given me . . . YOUR time.
Time . . . Time . . . choices I must make
I choose to put you first, Lord,
And as I do, You will multiply my time
And show me your plan for my day
Thank you for this precious gift of time!
THE POEM
(Author Unknown)
I knelt to pray but not for long
I had too much to do.
I had to hurry and get to work
For bills would soon be due.
So I knelt and said a hurried prayer
And jumped up off my knees.
My Christian duty now was done
My soul could rest at ease.
All day long I had no time
To spread a word of cheer.
No time to speak of Christ to friends
They'd laugh at me I'd fear.
No time, no time, too much to do,
that was my constant cry.
No time to give to souls in need.
But at last the time, the time to die,
I went before the Lord.
I came, I stood with downcast eyes.
For in his hands God held a book;
It was the book of life.
God looked into his book and said,
"Your name I cannot find.
I once was going to write it down
But never found the time"
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