Merlin Mann says:
“Any thing we want to accomplish in this world eventually has to manifest itself in an intentional physical activity.”
Our time is our life. To squander our time is to squander our life.
If we waste our time we will waste our destiny. If we don’t manage our time effectively we will squander our destiny. It takes skill and character to manage our time. Having an aggressive approach to time management is to have passion for fulfilling our destiny.
Spending our life differently is the same as spending our time differently. We can’t have the desires and visions our life be one thing while living in a vacuum with our time, assuming it will all work itself.
If you have real goals for your life then they have to end up as real time spent in your day.
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Linsey said:
As a new reader on this site, I do not want to jump right in, only to find later that I’ve put my foot in my mouth. Neither do I want to come across as being overly critical when I have not yet earned the right to offer critique. I applaud your emphasis on responsibly and discipline - virtues which are all too often lacking within the Church. HOWEVER… I imagine this blog as being read by folks who are already fairly invested in their Christian walk, and I worry that too much control and rigidity (with regards to time) can be damaging.
Since the Church is called to be in the world but not of it (John 17:14-15) we must also question the cultural norms in which we are enmeshed. Certainly tyranny of the Clock, of Progress, and the Quantifiable (results of both Capitalism and Industrailization) have left enormous causalties. We must always be careful aim for a good balance, to be in time and yet eternal. In order to succeed as temporal stewards, our hearts must be in the right place. Believers are promised that from them shall flow “rivers of living water” (John 7:38). No matter how successful, or unsuccessful we are at managing our time, it is important to stand in that promise. Though I’d certainly advocate intensive scheduling if that’s what it took to get a rebellious heart into submission, it is important to note that many people are faced with the opposite plight: hearts too easily pacified by anything they can quantify and hold onto, be that works, devotions, or total numbers of hours spent.
It was church bells that introduced clock-time to the world and we must be careful what we do with that legacy. The world has learned the lesson of time only too well. Now instead of conserving our hours for the unquantifiable and satifying, we as a culture spend them at an ever increasing rate, selling ourselves as another commodity. I agree that it is vitally important to analyze our temporal stewardship. However, we must start that analysis with a look at the lenses currently affecting our ability to clearly see the problem.
Posted on January 22, 2007 at 12:13 am