Time!
The people called Cornerstone just started a new message series entitled "The Time of Your Life!" In worship this past Sunday, we studied Genesis 1 and discovered something about how God created time. He intended there to be three categories of time in a day:
- Night: intended for sleep!!! The plan: 10 pm to 6 am. The idea: Adequate rest is needed in order to have The Time of Your Life!
- Morning: also called "day"...intended for productivity. The plan: 6 am to 6 pm. The idea: One must be productive for an appropriate time in order to have The Time of Your Life!
- Evening: intended for relationship building! The plan: 6 pm to 10 pm. The idea: We must spend time building relationships...not just being busy with stuff...in order to have The Time of Your Life!
Now obviously, we cannot always maintain this schedule, but the concept is huge. Are we spending 8 hours daily in rest? Are we spending 12 hours daily being productive? Are we spending 4 hours daily building relationships...both with the Lord and with one another? And we wonder why we're not having "The Time of Our Lives!"
PS: Thanks to Randy Frazee and his book "Making Room for Life" to open my eyes to the truth behind God's creation of time!
6 comments:
A book I'd recommend to you is To Everything a Season: A Spirituality of Time by Bonnie Thurston. Nice little book about the "mystery of time" by a retired professor at Pgh Seminary (who was also one my better profs).
Also, Oscar Cullmann's hard-to-find classic Christ and Time: The Primitive Christian Conception of Time and History is worth a look if you can get it through interlibrary loan.
...unless you're too "whooped".
Brett...great wisdom, but hard to practice. Many days, I feel like I don't spend enough productive time. I get plenty of rest and work hard at maintaing relationship with God and others, but I feel a missing spark in my life. Keep me in prayer.
Randy,
You're prayed for brother. By the way, good message pastor!
I just stumbled upon these two quotes the other day:
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." (Emily Dickinson)
"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived."
(Captain Jean-Luc Picard)
Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day.
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