Wasting time?

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There are times when I have to 'hurry' and others when I can just linger, doddle, or sit still. Most of the times when I have to 'hurry' it involves me not planning well, so I find myself trying to 'catch up' or 'get something done' so I can move on like I am supposed to. Hurrying is not the best way to live, though. Unfortunately, it is riddled with all manner of 'oops' moments. The best 'plan' for our day may actually be to stop wasting time in the unimportant stuff and direct our attention fully on the important stuff God has for us right now.

I thought very carefully about my life, and I decided to follow your rules. Without wasting any time, I hurried back to obey your commands. (Psalm 119:59-60)

Without wasting time, I hurried back...
This suggests it is possible for us to have been where we should not have been, been attentive to the wrong stuff, or been too laissez-faire about where we were headed to see how far we drifted from where we wanted to be. Either way, we needed to refocus and 'hurry back' to where God intended for us to be in the first place. This might mean we have to refocus our attention, stop doing something, or just plain start doing something he asked for us to do.

Without wasting time...
When we don't want to do something, we find ways to waste a bit of time, don't we? When we don't know what to do, we spin our wheels perhaps a little too long. When we can't find our way because we allowed ourselves to drift into things we were never to be involved in, we find ways to just 'stay involved' but really aren't all that invested, wasting time on the thing God never intended to us to be involved in at all. Could it be that one of the hardest things to do is stop wasting time as it applies to be obedient to what God asks us to do?

When we make a heart determination to stop 'wasting time' in our walk with Jesus, we find there is a pull toward obedience. When we allow our minds to be renewed by the power of his Word each day, we find our minds drift into 'mindless thought' and more toward what it might be that God intends for our day. Wasting time is really not optional - we need to stop wasting time in our walk with Jesus. The days are short! Just sayin!

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