I woke up this morning with a message from the Lord. He is concerned about how we are spending our time. It’s not that we’re not busy doing things. We are very busy. He wants us to know we are too busy to enjoy the time He has given us.
As I was contemplating all of this I popped a movie in the DVD player called Eat Pray Love. Julia Roberts stars as the main character Liz. The book has to be phenomenal because the movie gripped me from the first scene. God really wanted me to watch this movie this morning. I learn from movies. I also learn from books. These are the two surest ways for me to get a point and He knows it.
His message to us today is about our time and what we should be doing with it. These are some of the things that please Him…
Be Your Real Self
We spend so much time focused, even consumed, by the mundane, energy-sapping trappings of a commercial life. But, is it really the life we want or the life someone said we were supposed to have? There is a line in the movie Eat Pray Love where the main characters love interest tells her to stop waiting for something to happen. That is so true! How many times do we sit around waiting for something to happen instead of going out and making it happen? You create the life you want with each moment you live. You decide your life by what you do with your time. Make good use of your time. We’re all unique and created to marvel in that uniqueness. People say Christians are boring. Maybe we are, but we’re not supposed to be. We’re supposed to give ourselves to our own personality. My way of living doesn’t have to look like yours. It just has to have one singular purpose; to glorify God. How we do that is our choice to make.
Failing Wonderfully!
I’m loving my life right now. It’s the life I asked God for and He gave it to me. I must add that I did ask Him for His will over my will just in case I was not listening very well! I’ve learned that His will for my life is so much better than anything I could think of for myself. So, when I saw an opportunity to do what I wanted with my life, I took it. I could have kept waiting to do what I’m doing now. I tried it once before and failed miserably. But, like the medicine man said in Eat Pray Love “Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.” I would not be where I am now if I had not experienced a form of ruin in the past. Yes, it did transform my life. I did not embrace all of the experience when deep in the heart of the work of the transformation. I actually cried and fretted a lot. Now I see how much it was necessary to my growth. In the book On Becoming A Leader, Warren Bennis interviews a successful leader Marty Kaplan. Kaplan attributes much of his success to his ability to have an “appetite for experience.” He goes on to say that one needs to have “…a kind of fearlessness and optimism and confidence, and you’re not afraid of failure.” You see--failing is a perfectly good use of your time!
Selfless Devotional Work
What’s yours? Our time should be spent doing something for others. We are supposed to help someone in need. How we help is up to us. Opening our hearts to hear what that is from our source, our creator, is an excellent use of our time. If you are already listening, good for you! If not, give it try. Your whole life will be better for it. And, you just might make a world of difference in somebody’s life.
God says to us today: use your time wisely. Don’t waste it. Cherish it. Love it. Enjoy it. I give it to you for your pleasure. Time is what you make of it. Make it good!
Peace be with you,
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