“Pride is a form of cosmic plagiarism.” -Tim Keller
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Never Enough
“You can pull all the empires of the world into your soul, and still not be satisfied.” -Tim Keller
Some Guidelines for Thinking about Time
1. What God has given me is sustainable.
2. An opportunity does not equal an obligation.
3. I must identify and focus on the most important things.
4. Tarrying times are not idle times.
5. I will center my time on the main thing God has called me to do.
-From Paul Chappell, Stewarding Life
What People Say about Time after the Fact?
“As a pastor, I’ve stood by many deathbeds. I’ve listened as people have looked back over their lives and whispered their final regrets. Never once have I heard someone say, “I only wish I had worked more overtime” or “If only I had become the CEO.” But I have heard many people lament, “I wish I had spent more time with my children” or “I wish I had invested more into the work of the Lord.” It is entirely possible to diligently spend your time on fleeting goals. Some things just don’t matter when you approach the bridge between time and eternity. If you don’t clearly identify what true success is, you will come to the end of your life and realize that you lived for the wrong goals. At that point, you will wish you had invested more into eternity.” -Paul Chappell, Stewarding Life
God’s Pilot Program: Time
“Imagine your bank calls to ask you to help them pilot a new program. The plan is both lavish and simple: Each morning, the bank will credit your account with $86,000, which you will be free to spend or invest as you please. But every night, your account will close with a balance of zero. It will carry no balance from day to day, meaning that you must spend or invest the deposit each day or it will be wasted. I think if most of us had such an opportunity, we would manage to find good use for the $86,000 every day! The truth is, you do have a bank that credits your account each morning. Its name is Time, and it generously gives you 86,000 seconds daily. But like the bank we described above, every morning the non-refundable deposit is cancelled by evening. Whatever you don’t spend or invest is wasted. Failure to use the day’s deposit results in irreplaceable loss.” -Paul Chappell, Stewarding Life
Time
Benjamin Franklin sagely observed, “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.”
From Paul Chappell’s book Stewarding Life
