Reality Is Not A Game,

Run, don't Walk. Time is short. Unplanned time always goes towards your weakness. Gordon MacDonald. Urgency is often due to lack of planning rather than the importance of the given matter. We often make the unimportant the important at the expense of the important. We have spent so much time and energy on the unimportant the the important fades in importance. When we are finally face with the inevitable, the important, we have no time or energy to take it on. All people have a finite amount of energy, time and resources. Satan knows this and loves to "emergencies" in our lives that demand our time, resources and energy so that when the "important" arises we have nothing left. We quit planning our time because we are afraid of missing out on something. Often we become so concerned about what might be that we neglect what is. This neglect eventually destroys us. We need to be people who give of our first fruits, our first energy, our first time, our first excitement and if we have little left for the unimportant, we will have no regrets. Hebrews 12:1 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 5:3-21 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. 5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous ( that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not become partners with them; 8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “ Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” 15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Psalms 90:12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.Psalms Dave Wager davewager.com