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Nnamdi Christopher Wallace <[email protected]>
Manage Your Time, Manage Your Life
The UCB Word For Today <[email protected]> 29 March 2016 at 02:02Reply-To: The UCB Word For Today <[email protected]>To: [email protected]
Manage Your Time, Manage Your Life
29 MARCH 2016
‘Walk in wisdom … redeeming the time.’
Colossians 4:5 NKJV
Your greatest possession - is your next twenty-four hours. How will you spend
them? Will you allow television, pointless emails, unimportant tasks, your own
impulses, the wrong people, or other meaningless distractions to consume your
day? Or will you take control of your time and make today count? Leadership
experts say that focusing on the top 20 per cent of your priorities brings an 80
per cent return on your effort. So when you get up each morning, look in the
mirror and say, ‘Today I’ll live my life according to God’s will, and give my
energies to the things that help me fulfil it’. The truth is, there’ll always be things
vying for your attention. Advertisers want you to spend money on their products.
And have you noticed how people with nothing to do, usually want to spend their
time with you? Even your own desires can be so diverse and your focus so
scattered that you aren’t sure what needs your attention first. That’s why you
need to focus like a laser on your God-given purpose. Whatever you concentrate
on, you give strength and momentum to. Your priorities determine how you
spend your time, so set them prayerfully and maintain them carefully. Eliminate
non-essentials. Those who tell you, ‘You can have it all’ are misguided. You can’t
do everything you want to do, but you can do everything God wants you to do.
You’ve got to choose! Success comes from doing the right things right, and
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letting the rest go. If you’re not sure what the right things are for you, imagine
yourself looking back on your life years from now – which things would you
regret not doing?
Bible in a Year: Deut 25-27; mark 14:27-52;
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