Dan mentioned in the extended teaching that we all have 24 hours in a day to do what every it is we need to do. Then he said President Bush has the same amount of time as we do, but does a whole lot more with it.
But does he? Just because the gravity or importance of our daily decision making doesn’t equal the President’s, does that nullify the number of decisions we make every day? I don’t think so.
Now, if someone would like to compare the effectiveness of decision making in a 24 hour period, that might be an interesting discussion. Perhaps that is what Dan meant I and took it wrong. 😉
Ahhh, my confused friend ;), my point was simply that each person has 24 hours regardless of what you need to do (President and Peasant). All God wants us to do, and be about, can fit within that 24 hour period. Therefore, those who say they do not have time are actually not using the time they have the way God intended. To strickly say that one does not have time, is to say God’s will is not achievable within the resources He has given and that, my friend, has the scent of the devil on it.
So when its comes to using time, how do you wisely draw the line between maximum efficiency vs. margin in ones’s life?
– Chris Rice
I think I get 23.999763 hours – and that is just not fair.
Brevity.
Seriously…
Be efficient with everything else so that you need not be efficient with margin.
If you then choose to use your margin to return to something you short-changed in your efficiency, that’s your choice.
Darn, I might just start doing that…
It’s impossible to get less than 24 hours, John…we get leap seconds and leap years because each (solar) day is a little bit longer. One day is actually, on average, 24.000000556 hours, because at this time there are about 86,400.002 seconds in a solar day. (This length is “increasing by about 2 milliseconds per century”, according to wikipedia.) Now isn’t that cool? 😀
Jeffrey:
You obviously have too much time ;)!
Jeffrey, how long before the world eventually stops spinning?
Longer than this world will exist, David. 🙂
Back to the question of margin vs. efficiency; One way to look at it would be to “walk in the Spirit.” It may sound simple, but when we are living according to His plan we are better to recognize legitimate priorities and unneeded activities.
Is this too simple?
It is a good answer I think, but hard to qualify. If walking in the spirit is obedience, which as humans we don’t do perfectly, then when can you decipher when you are exercising God’s plan or following our own, which may appear godly?