Productivity is effectively stewarding our gifts, talents, time, energy, and (yes... even...) enthusiasm for the good of others and the glory of God... You can do this in full view of others and you can do this when you are all alone.
One key principle in making our time-management Christian is this: Let love for others be the driver of your disciplined, intentional planning. .. One way to make it practical is to schedule the time both for proactive good in the calling God has given us and reactive good that responds to the urgent needs of others. Without scheduling, we will falter at the proactive; without flexibility, we’ll be unavailable for the reactive.
When the gospel floods our soul, and our schedules, and we know deeply that “Christ Jesus has made me his own,” then, in all our imperfections and indiscretions — but alive in faith, powered by the Spirit, and driven by love — we’re able to “press on to make it my own” and “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead . . . press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:12–14).
God spoiled Syria’s soil and dried up the Nile — he ravaged their industries, their to-do lists — SO THAT he could come and heal them when they finally turned to him in faith. As soon as they surrendered and submitted themselves to him, his mercy blossomed in the gardens of death and his love flowed to them like a river wide and strong.
Pray for God’s help and strength in your predictable tasks today. Don’t assume everything will happen like yesterday, or last Thursday, or last September, or last year. God’s grace and mercy are new this morning for every task and routine, whether new or old, familiar or unfamiliar — if you’ll ask him for it (Matthew 7:7–8). Serve in the strength and time and talents that he supplies (1 Peter 4:11), because the work ahead of you is God’s, given to you for his glory.
Productivity is a lifelong pursuit that reaches into every area of who we are and what we do.
One key principle in making our time-management Christian is this: Let love for others be the driver of your disciplined, intentional planning. .. One way to make it practical is to schedule the time both for proactive good in the calling God has given us and reactive good that responds to the urgent needs of others. Without scheduling, we will falter at the proactive; without flexibility, we’ll be unavailable for the reactive.
When the gospel floods our soul, and our schedules, and we know deeply that “Christ Jesus has made me his own,” then, in all our imperfections and indiscretions — but alive in faith, powered by the Spirit, and driven by love — we’re able to “press on to make it my own” and “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead . . . press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:12–14).
You may always be on the clock, but the mercies of Christ are new every morning.
Even every hour.
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God spoiled Syria’s soil and dried up the Nile — he ravaged their industries, their to-do lists — SO THAT he could come and heal them when they finally turned to him in faith. As soon as they surrendered and submitted themselves to him, his mercy blossomed in the gardens of death and his love flowed to them like a river wide and strong.
Pray for God’s help and strength in your predictable tasks today. Don’t assume everything will happen like yesterday, or last Thursday, or last September, or last year. God’s grace and mercy are new this morning for every task and routine, whether new or old, familiar or unfamiliar — if you’ll ask him for it (Matthew 7:7–8). Serve in the strength and time and talents that he supplies (1 Peter 4:11), because the work ahead of you is God’s, given to you for his glory.
-Desiring God Ministries
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