Time Management – God Cares
October 14,
2012
Exodus 18:13-18
The next day Moses sat as judge
for the people, while the people stood around him from morning until evening. When
Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What
is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the
people stand around you from morning until evening?” Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the
people come to me to inquire of God. When they have a dispute, they come to me and
I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes
and instructions of God.” Moses’
father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. You will surely wear yourself out, both you
and these people with you. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it
alone.
God wants us to live healthy, meaningful lives. God gives us time, talent, and resources to
do this. God commands us to be stewards
(managers) of what he has given us. God
cares about what we do with the time we have.
Moses wasn’t a good time manager.
He worked from sunup to sundown.
He worked hard every day. This is
a good trait. God honor hard work. Yet what Moses was doing with his time was
not good. His father in law saw what
Moses was doing and pointed this out.
For all his hard work, Moses was just wearing himself and his people
out. He was less able to do the work God
called him to do because of how he was managing his time.
For a lot of us, our lives are similar to Moses. We work hard.
We give a lot of time to our jobs and the various other parts of our
lives. Yet we sometimes feel like life lacks
health, meaning, or purpose. Sometimes
we are just worn out. God has created a
rhythm to life. We see it every day when
the sun sets and rises again. We see it
every time we go to sleep and wake up.
God created priorities for life.
He is first followed by family then everything else. Getting out of rhythm in life equals getting
out of rhythm with God. Our lives are to
be examples of how God created us to live.
What does your time management say about God? Let’s work to be good examples.
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