Time

It's long, short, too much of, too little of, gone before you know it, drags on forever, used up and wasted. It's valuable, precious and taken for granted.

I have encountered so many people and have been guilty myself of not using my time wisely and in an effective manner. This post has been in the draft phase for a few days. I knew I wanted to talk about "time," but I didn't really know what about it.

Then in Life Group (another shout out to my wonderful community of girls!) we talked through 1 Corinthians 5. We, as usual, got a little off topic (but not as bad as normal) and started talking about how our time needs to be spent furthering the kingdom of God and not idly. Being intentional and not settling for conversations that just happen to come up in which you can bring up your faith.

A friend in my Life Group went potluck for her roommates because she is from out of state. Well, she happened to get one that was an Atheist. Not one of those "all Christians are evil" Atheists, but she simply doesn't believe. Well, when she started being intentional with her conversation, her lifestyle and her prayers she found that her roommate started to open up. One day she came up to her out of the blue and said that she could tell she was different by the way she lives.

I had a friend at work tell me that the fact I don't cuss and take part in certain conversation topics proves how incredibly my faith impacts me.

So many prayers have been answered by being intentional with words, time and effort.

So since I chased that rabbit a little down the trail. Back to the time thing. The thing is that it takes TIME to be intentional. In Life Group we talked about how every moment of our lives should bring glory to God. 1 Corinthians 5 says that on the judgement day we will be judged on the "good and bad" things we've done. However in a different translation, it means "worthwhile and worthless."

Worthless...hm. Not worth anything. How many times a day do we do things that are worthless? How much time do we spend not being intentional in what we do?

Tonight at work (yeah, I know it's late....but I had to close and I wanted to get this down before I forgot it) I was mopping. It gives you time to think....and I like it because nobody else is talking to me. I found myself talking to God. Just in normal conversation like he was my best friend! And a verse came to mind. 1 Corinthians 10:31 *side note: Paul's letters to the Corinthians are awesome* "whether then, whether you eat or sleep or whatever you do, do it to the glory of God." Whatever you do......walk around campus, have lunch with a friend, go to a party, movie night with the roomies, be alone to relax, or mopping a floor. Do it to the glory of God (which also means to the best of your ability, by the way).


So the point of this not really focused post is that God is doing great things. All you have to do is be in an intentional relationship with Him and use your time to His glory! 


And this ISN'T as hard as it sounds. 






oh, right. The bottom line is that we only have so much time. And I don't know about you, but at the end of mine I want to hear "well done, my good and faithful servant."


 Time for bed!