Back to work today for the final two weeks of my 4-month temporary placement with the State of Idaho. I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep cures. I’m the bone-weary kind of tired that has slowed my thinking processes as well as my body’s. It’s going to take a couple weeks or maybe even a month of not having to drive a 60-mile commute each day and work an 8-hour day to recover my energy.
If there is a way to describe this past autumn season it would be ‘too busy.” I was too busy to read my Bible the way I should, too busy to pray as I should, too busy to study, too busy to do the things I needed or wanted to do … too busy.
In a way, my past autumn season reflects our culture … too busy. We are too busy with the trivial and immediate, too busy trying to stay ahead financially, too busy with activities and sports and what-not to do the really important time investments.
Each of us has a daily allotment of time. No one gets more, no one gets less. It’s 24 hours per person per day. Some of those hours are relegated to sleep, the rest are ours to spend wisely. That’s the hard part – applying wisdom to the allocation of our time.
Eph 5:15-16a: “Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity….” [NIV]
Father, help me to apply Your wisdom to my hours. May I make the most of every opportunity You place before me, and never be “too busy” to hear Your voice and do Your will. Amen.
