The Trouble With Time

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   I am NOT an organized person. My back pack at school is generally the punchline of many jokes with my friends, I am constantly loosing stuff to the point my teachers KNOW when I'm looking for something around the school. But. I am very organized with TIME. SCHEDULES. LISTS. I will know mine, my family's and two of my best friend's. So I've managed to work blogging into that schedule more or less. And up until 2 weeks ago, I had devotionals scheduled in well too.

   Here is the honest, brutal truth. I have tunnel vision. Badly. I'll get one thing in my head and will focus on that for days, weeks even on end. And lately, school has taken up every inch of space in my line of sight, minus a little for writing. My devotionals got pushed out because I shifted my focus and efforts. I forgot that effort in spending time with God is the first step in getting everything else to go right. I forgot to make time.

   'Make time'. It's a funny phrase we humans use. We can't make more time any more than we can make matter out of nothing. Why? Because it's a power specifically belonging to God. What He gave us is the power to 'manage time'. 24 hours, all for us. 24 hours to do as we like. And I failed to give Him so much as 15 minutes of my whole day. I'm not proud of it. What I am proud of is that I can say I have a God who doesn't care how many times I put something in front of Him, whenever I open up His word to come back, He is there. And He always will be.

   The trouble with time is how easy it is to waste it. The trouble with time is how fast it goes. The trouble with time is we aren't as careful with it as we should be. I'm not, 100%. And I probably will never be. Unless I spend time praying to God to help me to look at my time as HIS time. What would He want me to do with my seconds, minutes, hours, days and years? That's the goal after all-take all of my life and give it to Him. Spend every single second with and for Him.
        -Kit 💝

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