Lately I’ve been thinking about time.  Time lost.  Meditating on my life this last year, I am struck more by what I did NOT do as a result of time I spent doing something that didn’t matter – feeling sorry for myself, looking through Facebook, watching the news, cleaning a house that was already clean, perusing my phone for the latest info on life, watching tv…..  None of these is wrong in and of themselves, but the quantity of time I spent doing them stopped me from doing other things. 

I have decided that in 2021 I’m NOT going to set a goal to watch less tv or scroll through my phone less, watch the news less or clean my house less!

Instead, I am going to set a goal to do some things MORE:

Read more – Ephesians 3:3-4  How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,  4  Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),

Pray more – Colossians 4:2  Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

Write more – 1 John 2:12  I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake

Rejoice more – Proverbs  17:22  A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Sing more – Psalms 104:33  I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Encourage more – Jeremiah 24:6  For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

Maybe this last year, you got distracted like I did!!  Join me in doing MORE of the things above and we won’t even have to think about doing less of the things that steal, yeah even rob us of our time!!

“I don’t fear failure.  I fear succeeding at something that doesn’t matter to God!”