I find myself rushing from one place to the next just to get everything done. I imagine many people find themselves feeling like this. There just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day. So, how do we handle this?
I wonder sometimes, if the days were longer, that I would be better able to fit everything in. But the interesting thing is, that we seem to always find another way to spend our time. Even if our days were 32 hours long, I imagine we would be able to find a way to fill those hours too. So, maybe longer days isn’t the solution. I’m pretty sure there’s no way to make that happen anyway. So, 24 hours each day. That’s all we have. I suppose what it comes down to is time management.
The first rule of time management is prioritizing. So, I need to figure out what things are really important to me. I’ve had to do this for myself. There are things I absolutely have to do each day. So, those go on the top of the priorities list. I get those things accomplished first and then go on to less important things. What I find is that getting the important things out of the way first squeezes out any of the more trivial items from my day. And this helps me be more productive.
Of course we sometimes convince ourselves that things are important, but it’s questionable that they are. Spending a weekend binge watching every available episode of my favorite TV show is probably not one of them. Although, I admit we need our downtime, that’s probably a bit extreme. So, of course balance comes into play here. I can become so productive that I burn out. And I can become so focused on leisure time that I never become productive. But if I keep the important things as a priority, I can fit my leisure time in whatever time remains.
Being productive is important. You not only end up accomplishing your goals, but you just feel a sense of satisfaction that you’ve done something that mattered. It seems prioritizing my time also helps cut down on rushing to do different things. I find that the times when I ended up rushing was because I hadn’t prioritized. I spent too much time on the less essential items so that it made me rush to get the essential items done. So, having a list of items, even if it’s just a mental list, seems to help alleviate this.
So, the upside of all this is being more productive, more relaxed, and generally more balanced. I don’t have to rush because I know I’m doing the most I can with the time I have. Thankfully, I don’t have to think about theories on time travel, or petition the government to extend our days to 32 hours. I wonder—maybe they could incorporate it into daylight savings somehow. Just kidding.
So, what do we find that God has to say about how we manage our time? There are a number of things He wants us to be aware of concerning our time. He wants us to be mindful and aware of the importance of our time.
AV Hebrews 3:13: “But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” Today is our day, our opportunity, not to just be effective for ourselves, but for others as well. I think of the part of this verse that says, “while it is called To day”, and I think about how only ‘Today’ is a called ‘Today’. There’s no other day like it. It’s because it’s our moment of opportunity. Today will soon be yesterday. I believe it also speaks to the broader idea of ‘Today’ being this life. That we only have so much time on this earth.
AV 1 Peter 1:17: “And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:” This reminds us of the importance of what we do while we’re here. We need to be mindful of how we are spending our time, and spending it on things that are truly important. God wants us to be sober-minded about what we invest ourselves in, because we will one day be rewarded according to what we do while we’re here.
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AV James 4:15: “For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.” Besides just being good stewards of our time, we need to also make all the plans we have be subject to God and His plans. The verses leading to this one refer to us declaring what we are going to do in the future, and what plans we have. Without realizing it, we can be prideful in saying what we’re going to do this and this thing. We need to make sure that we are submitting our plans and future to the direction and leading of God. Because the truth is, we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. We can plan for it, but it’s still subject to God and His leading.
AV Proverbs 20:13: “Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.” I think that the Proverbs are important in giving us good reminders. This one reminds us about the importance of being diligent in our work, and not being lazy. Sometimes we waste our time just due to laziness. We don’t want to take on a task, and sometimes it can be because it’s enormous and seems overwhelming. But we can’t use leisure as our respite from important work.
AV Matthew 6:34: “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.” An important reminder for is to not get too caught up in thinking about what will happen tomorrow. More importantly, we can’t get caught up in worrying about tomorrow. This, in itself, is a waste of time. Even though planning is a part of what we do today, we need to be present in the ‘here and now’ so we can focus on the task at hand. And this is how we can know we are spending our time wisely.
AV Hebrews 3:13: “But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”
AV 1 Peter 1:17: “And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:”
AV James 4:15: “For that ye [ought] to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.”
AV Proverbs 20:13: “Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, [and] thou shalt be satisfied with bread.”
AV Matthew 6:34: “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.”