New Year’s Eve is tomorrow. This week brings in the New Year 2025! Where does the time fly? I know this resonates with all of us as we attempt to fit in all the opportunities and new challenges we will be facing. When quantifying time, there is always the “tyranny of the urgent”.
With “The Princess Parables Series” and the exciting possibility of a new series for little boys around the corner, this year will be filled with time sensitive deadlines, expectations and hope for both, the present and future.
I had never had a website, a Facebook page, Pinterest account or a Blog until January of 2015, when The Series was first released and I officially welcomed a new world of technological communication with the opening of all four at once! With its availability came a huge responsibility to use them wisely…they can become time devouring!
“Our greatest danger in life is in permitting the urgent things to crowd out the important.” Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. used to say, “Never sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.”
Everyone receives an equal supply of time. The only difference between us 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 approximately 40-50 hours for 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 the regular worship of God (devotion, fellowship, meditation, etc.) How many hours for personal service in the name of Christ? Will we rob God? We can and we do!
Perhaps we may be very busy with good things, yet too busy for the best things. The great question is: Have we made wise use of our time as good stewards of Christ?
Henry Clay Trumbull said, “Today is, for all that 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”…
“Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
making the best use of the time, because the days are evil”. Eph. 5: 15-16
Let’s make our time count…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
~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.
