14 January 2024 - Manage your time well

Whatever controls our time, controls our life. We face different time challenges, but generally we have the same desire: To make the best use of our time to accomplish the things we feel are truly important.

Ephesians 5:15-17(ESV) Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

How can we make the best use of our time? Perhaps a day planner would help. We must be wise stewards of our time.

Luke 12:42(ESV) And the Lord said, ‘Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?’ A wise person is someone who manages time well.

Proverbs 6:10–11(ESV) A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.

Proverbs 13:4(ESV) The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

John 9:4(NLT) We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work.

Jesus is saying that while we still have time, we are to do the work of God for the night is coming when no one can work anymore.

2 Corinthians 9:8(ESV) And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Paul understood that God can work in time and space where we cannot.

Psalm 62:8(ESV) Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.

We can’t take charge of our time without clearly defining our priorities. We must schedule what matters most first, or it will be pushed out by the hundreds of urgent things that come at us each week.

You must be able to prioritise.

Proverbs 21:17(ESV) Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man.

_Proverbs 20:4(NLT) Those too lazy to plow in the right season will have no food at the harvest.

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” - Abraham Lincoln