Readjusting Our Schedules

Another Labor Day Weekend is upon us and, for many, it’s time to readjust our schedules once more. Last week, I asked you how you had spent your summer. This week, I ask you, how will you spend the fall? If we never take the time to consider our priorities, they are guaranteed to get out of order. So, I invite you to consider the many things that will be vying for your time with an “eye” for which things are the most important. What things do you have to schedule in to make sure that they don’t get pushed out of your busy day(s).

When wrestling with the futility of life apart from God, The author of Ecclesiastes (most likely Solomon) wrote the famous words found in Ecclesiastes 3:1, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven...” While we may be quick to say, “I’m too busy,” or “I’m too tired,” to do something, we always seem to be able to accomplish the things that are our highest priorities. Now, I’m not pointing any fingers. What I am doing is encouraging all of us to be good stewards of our time and ask ourselves whether God would be pleased with how we use it.

Is there something that you sense God is calling you to do that you have made excuses for? Are you using your gifts, talents, and abilities to glorify God? As you consider your priorities and schedule for the Fall, please remember that you are part of a body, and you are needed:

Ephesians 4:15-16 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

In His grip,
Pastor Decker