{"id":6546,"date":"2013-10-27T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allandouglas.dougbittinger.com\/blog\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"time-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/time-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME-WISE"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Calvin<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Time is a fascinating feature of our human existence.\u00a0 It is the stuff life is made of.\u00a0 We may lose some important items of life, but time is the most precious thing we could ever squander.\u00a0 We may be rich in worldly goods, but poor indeed if we have not time. Time is the context in which God created all things and allows history to record the events of His created order.\u00a0 We do well to redeem our time.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Our sins are often complicated because of the lack of time.\u00a0 We do not have enough time to make all the money we crave.\u00a0 We do not have enough time to satisfy all our ambitions.\u00a0 We do not have enough time to go all the places there are to go.\u00a0 We do not have enough time to make everyone our closest friend.\u00a0 We do not have enough time for all the available thrills and excitements in our world of entertainment.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We are often trapped by our perceived lack of time and it raises our frustration level to the point of indigestion.\u00a0 In our attempt to do it all today we overload our daily human capacities.\u00a0 We try to borrow so much today from tomorrow that if we are not careful we will bankrupt our souls before our years are spent.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Life is passing us by far more quickly than we can absorb it.\u00a0 The longer we live the less likely we will live any longer.\u00a0 Yet, many of us go on living our lives as if there will never be a change of schedule.\u00a0 We become fanatically committed to a routine we assume will last forever.\u00a0 We have a work ethic that causes us to labor even during our leisure.\u00a0 Health and circumstances, however, have a way of inserting some unexpected holidays.\u00a0 Disease can play havoc when our bodies are fatigued.\u00a0 The fast lane takes its toll on our emotional and spiritual stability.\u00a0 Suddenly we find ourselves sidelined simply because we refuse to take some time-outs.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rest is not the only cure for our misuse of time.\u00a0 Worship can also heal our exhaustion.\u00a0 Taking time for God is taking time for ourselves.\u00a0 The Creator has a way of resuscitating His creatures.\u00a0 We are made to have fellowship with God, and to ignore it is to add spiritual fatigue to the weariness of our flesh.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To see God in the daily flow of things has a calming effect on all we do.\u00a0 It enables us to make the most of our time because God has equipped us for productivity.\u00a0 He frees us to find fulfillment within the parameters of our daily allotment of time.\u00a0 As the song-writer suggests, “Take time to be holy.”\u00a0 Think on these things as you change your clock back this fall.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

     Time is a fascinating feature of our human existence.  It is the stuff life is made of.  We may lose some important items of life, but time is the most precious thing we could ever squander.  We may be rich in worldly goods, but poor indeed if we have not time. Time is the … Continue reading “TIME-WISE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-6546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-of-faith","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19136,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions\/19136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}