The holidays can be exhausting!! It’s already the 1st of January 2024!! The new year approached us with stomping feet demanding ACTION! As women, we have ceased to be operational from guests and entertaining, late nights, early mornings, continual activity, meal preparation, decorating – undecorating, gift-giving …you know the drill.
“Life is easier than we think. All we have to do is accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.” The New Year presses us to restate our goals and priorities and take a peek back and measure what we have done by what we could have done! Weary and recuperating we ask ourselves:
Have we achieved the full potential of what God had planned for us?
As we start this first month of 2024 with the Princess Parable Series, and the preparation of The Knight Series, we take care to define our priorities and use them to pursue the goal we see in each area of our lives filled with purpose and direction. The secret to getting ACTION: “What the mind attends to, it considers. What it does not attend to, it dismisses. What the mind attends to continually, it believes and the will is set (when was the last time you read the Bible through?) And what the mind believes, it eventually does.” Success is not determined by the intellect, but by the will…set your sights on the goal…
In the New Year 2015 I had never had a Website, Facebook page, Pinterest, Twitter or a Blog, or even read a blog. I officially welcomed a new world of technological communication with the opening of all five at once! With its availability came a huge responsibility to use them wisely…they are consuming! “Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important… to sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate!” Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.
Everyone receives an equal supply of time. The only difference is in the way we spend it. Each week brings us 168 golden hours. We spend approximately 56 hours for sleep and recuperation. We spend approximately 28 hours for eating and personal duties. We spend 40-50 hours earning a living. We have 30-40 hours left to spend, just as we wish. But…how do we spend them?
How many hours for recreation?
How many hours for family communication?
How many hours for regular worship (devotion, fellowship, Bible-reading)
How many hours for personal service in the name of Christ?
Will we rob God?
We can and we do! As women, it is easy to get busy with good things, yet too busy for the best things. What kind of stewards are we of the time God gives us? “Today is, for all we know, the opportunity and occasion of our lives. On what we do or say today may depend the success and completeness of our entire life struggle. It is for us, therefore, to use every moment of today, as if our very eternity were dependent on its words and deeds”. Henry Clay Trumbull
Have a great week!
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
