While working at the office today I was listening to a webinar. I was easily distracted by the clock behind me. Usually the ticking doesn’t bother me, today it did. I was about five minutes late checking into the webinar and was stressed about if I would be able to join in. Throwing the computer open and hooking into the internet I was grateful they were still doing the introduction and explaining what we would be learning today. Tick, tick, tick the clock seemed to scream and the volume was being turned up with every tick. “I never noticed how loud that clock was”, I said to myself. I took a deep breath and tried to relax and ignore it.
It dawned on me that if the passing of time was as audibly loud as the ticking of this clock we may pay more attention to minutes going by. It seems we only notice time ticking by when we are late or under the gun. When nothing is pressing and nothing is on our schedule we do not notice the time going by. Other times we don’t notice the minutes slipping by, such as when we are enjoying what we are doing, or when we are caught up in our work.
What can we learn from this? Time presses on regardless of whether we want it to or not. We cannot stop time and only God can cause it to stand still. (Joshua 10:13) The only way to enjoy the time passing is by being in a state of mind where you don’t mind the minutes ticking by. God made time for man. He is eternal. He has all the time in the world. God never fills rushed or pressed. The more I am changed into His image the less time will affect me, good or bad. So time is on my side when I work with it not against it. Time spent in His presence whether working or relaxing will be time that I am being changed into His likeness and His character.
2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV) “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
When I settled myself down and focused on the webinar the ticking was forgotten about. Why? Because I was no longer focused on the ticking but on what I was learning. This New Year let’s not be so focused on what we are going to be doing with our time, but on who we are becoming, and into what image we are being made. Let’s let God do what He does best and rest in Him taking care of the clock.
Ephesians 5:16 (KJV) “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
Oh and remember what my One Word for 2016 was....EARLY! I am learning perseverance!
It dawned on me that if the passing of time was as audibly loud as the ticking of this clock we may pay more attention to minutes going by. It seems we only notice time ticking by when we are late or under the gun. When nothing is pressing and nothing is on our schedule we do not notice the time going by. Other times we don’t notice the minutes slipping by, such as when we are enjoying what we are doing, or when we are caught up in our work.
What can we learn from this? Time presses on regardless of whether we want it to or not. We cannot stop time and only God can cause it to stand still. (Joshua 10:13) The only way to enjoy the time passing is by being in a state of mind where you don’t mind the minutes ticking by. God made time for man. He is eternal. He has all the time in the world. God never fills rushed or pressed. The more I am changed into His image the less time will affect me, good or bad. So time is on my side when I work with it not against it. Time spent in His presence whether working or relaxing will be time that I am being changed into His likeness and His character.
2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV) “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
When I settled myself down and focused on the webinar the ticking was forgotten about. Why? Because I was no longer focused on the ticking but on what I was learning. This New Year let’s not be so focused on what we are going to be doing with our time, but on who we are becoming, and into what image we are being made. Let’s let God do what He does best and rest in Him taking care of the clock.
Ephesians 5:16 (KJV) “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
Oh and remember what my One Word for 2016 was....EARLY! I am learning perseverance!
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