This quote makes it sound so easy..I can sit here and think of many things that I wanna do with my time but eventually you feel like you run out of daily time to do it. TIME seems to be the topic of discussion lately with many people. I don't have time to do this.. I don't have time to do that.. I even find myself thinking the same thing at least a couple times a week. I believe it is something that each person struggles with at some point.I'm sure I can find a bunch of people who use lists each day. I LOVE to do lists! It's how I manage to stay focused at work and get all my daily projects done. It's the same for my high school youth that go to school. They have a set schedule and they follow it each day just like a to do list.
What if you realized that as a follower of Christ you have more time than anyone? I have been reading "One Thousand Gifts" by Ann Voskamp and ironicly Chapter 4 was about time! (I think God maybe trying to tell me something) As I was reading something in the chapter stuck out that I never really thought about before.
"In Christ, don't we have everlasting existence? Don't Christians have all the time in eternity, life everlasting. If anyone should have time, isn't it the Christ followers."
Wow! I have never thought about it that way before. In that case we have all the time we need. This definitely makes me feel so much better about the to do lists that don't get finished.
So with this newly found everlasting time we need to decide what we want to do to fill it...
Will it be exercising? Spending time with our families? Studying God's word?
A good point was brought up in Chapter 4 of "One Thousand Gifts" that I continue to think about.."Does the busyness of your life leave little time for the source of life? As I sit here and ponder this and decide what I am going to do with my extra time I realize that I don't always get enough time with my God. God desires us to spend time studying his word and talking to Him in prayer. As I crave to become one with Christ my desire needs to be his desire and to fill my extra time with Him.
What will you do with your everlasting time?
"We are merely moving shadow, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing." Psalm 39:6
Great Post! So glad you are blogging. I almost shut down my blog but going back through it the last couple of days made me realize it's something I NEED to do. I do hold some things back b/c of some of the people that read it but I shouldn't do that b/c something I'm going through or saying may speak to someone going through the same thing. So, welcome to bloggyland. Love ya!
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