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Posts from the ‘Time’ Category

Oct 27

Daily Dose 8: Priority Primer

  • How long would it take to compile a list of everything you must do and want to do for your whole life?
  • How would you know if you forgot to list an important item?
  • Do you think it would be time well spent if you prepared such a list?
  • How do you think you would feel once you had the list in hand: energized or overwhelmed?
  • How long would the list be helpful: a day, a week, a month, or a year, before it would be hopelessly out-of-date?

Quite a few organizational systems start with compiling such a list–and yes, if someone has hired a time consultant it might take several days of consulting fees to pull it together. These systems are following excellent ancient advice from the Lord when they ask their clients to undertake such a project. The Lord’s advice comes to us in the form of a prayer from Moses back to the Lord in Psalm 90: teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom (Psalms 90:12). Read more

Oct 26

Daily Dose 7: Priority Stewardship: What do the words mean?

Do you know how to get the right answer for any situation? You need to ask the right questions! Questions set a line of inquiry, and the best sets of questions help us maintain a wholesome objectivity, a passionate determination, and a helpful empathy. Questions are so informative! At times questions open new vistas and insights way beyond their actual answers. Questions are so helpful, we’ll need to give them a day or two on center stage, but right now, we just need to know what time questions will work that kind of magic for us? Read more

Oct 25

Daily Dose 6: Biblical Thinking

Thinking about time through the priority stewardship lens is not slapping a new term on top of an old idea, but realigned thinking. Accurate biblical thinking aligns our minds with God’s—something that is neither natural nor (often) welcome for most of us. While it may sound impressive (or boorishly superior) to declare, “My thoughts in this area of life reflect God’s thinking,” such words usually point to a motive or an attitude that is decidedly NOT aligned with God’s thoughts and character. So here is the first truth about biblical thinking: it is never just about the superficial words or surface responses, it is at least equal doses of motives, desires, drives, and thinking. Read more

Oct 24

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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Oct 23

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

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