Posts from the ‘Daily Dose 1-10’ Category

Daily Dose 5: Time Management

And just how would He have us “handle time?” Is time management the answer to using time His way?

Modern society presents time management as the field of study for gaining control in an uncontrolled world.  Consequently, even parents and school children are fortified with business world planners and calendars to keep their spinning tops in place.  Seminars, books, MP3 downloads, and in-office consultations are big business to assure no opportunity is missed. Vacation itineraries are programmed to the last moment and business management philosophy.

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Daily Dose 4: God in Time

God’s Character in Time

The Lord does not use earth time simply to keep us rightly positioned within eternal time. He also uses time to show us truths about Himself, His way of working, and the relationship He desires to have with His creations.

We are considered fools to neglect the truth of eternity and to squander all our resources on earth time.  We are challenged to keep eternity in view, and to consider all that is above and beyond our human sphere.

We are promised that our times are in His hands, and we are assured that neither eternity nor earth time is spinning untended or unwatched like some wild perpetual motion machine. He has shown that He moves in the fullness of His time to accomplish His appointed purposes in our time. Not only does He not slumber or sleep, He is never rushed or hurried in any of His designs. Read more

Daily Dose 3: Earth Time in Eternal Time

Since that first creative act, the Lord has dealt with His human creations within the context of time. Consider some commands and promises tied to time. We are told to:

• number our days,
• thank God for our daily bread,
• consider the days of our youth,
• not let the sun go down on our wrath,
• recognize the appointed times for every purpose (and often seemingly contradictory purposes) under heaven.

Yet underlying the earthly time the Lord has prepared for us, is the throb of His endless time—eternity—the time we are admonished to neither neglect nor ignore even as we operate in earth time. Read more

Daily Dose 2: The First Time

Life serves us once-in-a-lifetime vacations and once-in-a-lifetime tornadoes, dream opportunities and nightmare responsibilities. Life sears indelible memories in the flash of a second, yet in another flash, serves up an event that will never be consciously recalled again.  Is there a constant in the variety of events life serves to us? At least one—every event has consumed some of the commodity called Time.

Time is spent on automatic and subconscious events like breathing and routine and repetitive events like sleeping. Time is spent on events that demand—yea, CLAMOR for immediate attention (a crying baby or the boss’s deadline) and events so unassuming they can be neglected easily, often for years (personal Bible study, reading to a child, or taking time to talk with a friend). Read more

Daily Dose 1: Principle Trumps Pressure

The Pressures

The dentist calls.  Now you are twenty minutes late for your appointment.  The reminder sticker you got at your last visit is RIGHT THERE, posted on the calendar, and the office emailed yesterday as an additional reminder.  You still forgot in the bustle of the day.

“Just another day”—four chauffeuring trips, several errands, making a casserole for the neighbor with a new baby, three loads of laundry, three meals to fix, a house to clean, and a Sunday School craft to prepare—all after a full day of work.  Are you sure you can accomplish it all?  Read more