Take Time

Take Time

 I think the older you get the busier your life seems to become. It starts with going to school for seven or eight hours. Then you have extra-curricular activities you signed up for. The longer you're in school the more you add to your schedule. Then you go to college, where you take spaced out classes and fill the time between with studying, school clubs, and Taco Bell runs. That was the case for me anyway. I never had a big problem with it though, because I still had a lot of fun. There are definitely times where the number of things I had to do would require more than the 24 hours I had each day. I could've saved myself a lot of stress if I had figured out how to balance everything I needed to get done. Now, I'm out of school and the only thing I have to do is go to work. I should be pretty free with so little on my plate right? Well, work is eight hours… Then I work out for about an hour and a half… Then I'm physically exhausted so I try to take a break…But I have to eat and shower and I usually watch TV with my family. Then all of a sudden it's 10:30 and I need to go to bed. No matter what stage I'm at in life, there always seems to be enough things going on in my day that I feel busy.

            With my busyness, I give myself an excuse to ignore important things. I wake up early, but not enough to pray and still be punctual for work. I read through my social media accounts four to five times a day, but can't find time to read my Bible. I get in bed and I'm too tired to pray before passing out. How crazy does that sound, that in the 24 hours that God has given me I can't find time to give to Him? I run around trying to figure out how to manage my workload when God is the one who gave me this job. I stress about waking up early when I should be thankful to wake up and live another day. I spend so much time on my phone and computer, but I don't even think to open my bible app on either device. The world is full of things that take up our time. There isn't anything necessarily wrong with them, but overindulgence of anything can be bad. I don't need to quit my job, throw my phone out the window and spend 24/7 playing worship music, praying and reading. However, there's no reason God cannot be the first in my day and a consistent part of the whole day. Matthew 6:33 "Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need (NLT)." I've been working on spending more time with God. I listen to sermons via podcasts, actually use that bible app, and I'm working on praying before at I leave for work. Though I can barely keep my eyes open, I truly believe that taking time for God will improve my day.