Happy Monday! “Time is life; it is our most precious commodity. You can’t store it, freeze it, or dehydrate it for another day.” – from A Voice. A Vessel
If I were to guess about your schedule, I would say, “You’re busy!” Now think on this: Busy doing what?
I came upon some facts not long ago that made me pause. In a lifetime, we spend two or three years waiting in line, a few weeks at a red light, and forty-three days on hold on the phone. Sometimes it seems as if it is much more! We wait in the doctor’s office, wait for a return call, wait at the bus stop, and wait for the coffee to brew. Some are waiting for the “right one” to come along. Guess what? The doctor will see you. The call will come. The bus will arrive, and the coffee will brew.
Unfortunately, we also wait to say, “I’m sorry,” to call a friend, to write that overdue note, to forgive others, and to say, “I love you.” Will those things that we so often put off ever get done?
Jesus said in John 10:10b, …I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. If it is to be the life that He wants us to enjoy, it must contain those hours, minutes, and even seconds making people a priority of our time. A quote from the book Try Giving Yourself Away is true: “Happiness must be sipped, not drained from life in great gulps…A portion of thyself is a sip of happiness, as satisfying as it is costless.”
James 4:14 says that life is a vapor; it appears for a while, then vanishes. Take a can of room freshener and give it a squirt. How long does the mist last? Seconds? That is James’ picture of life. If we sleep eight hours a day until we are seventy-five years old, we will be sleeping for 219,150 hours. This just proves we have so little time to live!
Someone has said, “Life is a journey, not a destination.” As time is used wisely—a minute here and an hour there—our days will become happy. Who needs your call today? What note would encourage someone? What friend needs to hear your voice? What life could you change even now? Yours!
by Beverly Hyles
From the Mondays with Beverly blog. Reprinted with permission.
