This Week With Jesus

 

Suppose you had a problem which was so, so, huge only the President or Prime Minster or king or the head of your country could resolve it. So you approach his office and send a mail and weeks later you get a reply that you have been granted an audience and he will meet you for 15 mins six months later.  Now you wait eagerly for that date, preparing your application, file, arguments and case details. You hope you will get a favorable decision. This is a real-world scenario! Now think about the heavenly world. I face a problem today, and right now I get to escalate it to the Heavenly king through a personal hotline and even if His answer may take time, He provides interim relief. How great is that! And He does it day by day, minute by minute, looking after the lives of 8 billion people! 24X7! I may not meet God in wind, earthquake or fire, but for sure He is with me today and everyday in the simple ordinary events of life. And when I call on Him I know He will always be there to pick up

  While Time Management is a very popular concept, we believe that we can't really manage "time". Time manages us and we can at best manage our response to time. Our responses further generate reactions which then become a "result". But one needs wisdom to respond to time, a wisdom available in  Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 New King James Version (NKJV) where it says -  To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up; A time to weep, And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, And a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A time to gain, And a time to lose; A time to keep, And a time to throw away; A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak; A time to love, An