Are You Being Too Busy?

Men are never satisfied with what they have. They want more always. There are twenty four hours in a day. Yet, without thinking, we still want more; maybe thirty hours. We even act as if there are more hours in a day. We work longer hours, stay up later, and so it goes on. No matter what we do, it still remains twenty four hours, no more and no less. We can’t change that even if we tried! God rules over His creation and time is His to plan and control. God Himself is above time; it doesn’t exist in the way we know it. God has set the length and that’s it.

He’s also set the absolute number of those twenty four hours of each day we are getting. We often act, though, as if that too weren’t settled. We act as if our earthly days may just stretch some more, go a bit further. It will never happen; and that’s reality. Job 14:5 offers us the answer… “Man’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.” That’s it, and it is final. Our days are numbered! Our lives’ length and journeys have been set. God set them and we cannot do nothing about it. Our days will not stretch on forever, not in this world any case.

There is, however, another life after this one. That life never ends, it has no time scale to it. It is eternal! Our time is scarce – it’s limited and there’s less than we’d like to have. God planned our lives before we were born and we must accept that. How we allocate it, therefore, how we run ‘our calendars’, matters very much. If we are not intentional, life will allocate it for us. Things that are more urgent in our eyes will determine it for us. Is that what you want? That external factors come and set your limit? I for one don’t want that to happen. Therefore do what God has planned for your life and move forward, and believe in Him. Look at your calendar. Jot down what is most important to you. What is most important to God? Have you jotted that down as well? Then start today. Amen.