Managing time is such a very tough job for me... In mathematics, identifying time would be so easy like ABC's but in real life?! It never was for me. If I were to ask what would be the first wish among my list excluding everything about myself and my family, it would be to extend the day twice! It sounds funny, right?! Come to think of it- a day composed of 24 hour straight, regardless of the fact if you want to slow down everything to rush everything, time is constant! It was never been extended.. with that, the whole world is rushing! Try this simple mathematics:
An average person can sleep for 8hrs a day, so the remaining hrs he had to spent for his whole day activity would be 16hrs.. In the morning when he wakes up he had to spent at least 2hrs to fix himself to go to work, cook and eat food and he's ready! So, 16hrs less 2 hrs. is 14hrs. The next 1 hour, he had to spent it traveling to his workplace. Then 9 hours working in the office inclusive of his "1-hour-Lunch Break". Then go back home again and travel for an hour.. So, before going to sleep again, what shall he do for the remaining 3hrs including time to eat for his dinner?! Watch TV, sit back and relax, talk to his family, play video games, read publications?! Hectic huh?!
What can you say if he's working for 6 days a week?! well he still have one day for a day-off/rest-day.. but what if that rest day would turn out to be the time when he has to wash his clothes, take a grocery for the whole week, and clean his home... whew?! tiring!? do you think he could still take time for anything else?!
Now the question is this...
WHY ARE WE MAKING COMPUTATIONS ON THIS MAN'S HECTIC SCHEDULE? SHOULD I CARE ABOUT IT?!
Yes, you have to care about it.. This is everyone’s lifestyle today. Sleep-work-Sleep... Everyday is a routine, but don’t let your life will rule that routine. Working is so productive and it'll help you survive financially but it doesn't mean you have to focus on it. How about taking time to utter a little prayer every time you woke up, before you eat your meal, when you are down, when you are happy and right before you go to sleep? Would it be a BIG disturbance or delay on your so-busy-life schedule?!
Have you ever watched the Movie "Bruce Almighty"?! It would make you realize how busy God was but He take time to listen to everybody in the whole world. How and why He did it? Its because of love!
Being focus only on your own benefit would made you a selfish person, be generous and exercise the "nine fruitage of the spirit" (love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness and self control - Galatians 5:22).
Why don't you take a sit with a friend and have some coffees? Or take time to read the Bible? Or give a hand to someone in need? Being generous doesn't mean that you have to give material in all means, but there's something in your own simple ways you can contribute something that will change lives into a better one..
More than 7million people in this world do that whole heartedly... No one asks for it but they are willing to devote their lives and offer help in a different way that is more of a treasure. Those people who take time to talk to you no matter how hard you try to ignore them, took them for granted, and no matter how hard you try to hide or stay away from them, they still keep on seeking for your attention for your own benefit that you never even dare to recognize. They wanted to help you, and love urge them to do that.. A pure love that never asks anything in return but time. Why don't you try talk to them and listen for that "2 minutes" that they are asking for whenever they knock at your door?! You won't loose anything, yet you will gain something for free... and in fact you will cherish it for the rest of your life.. That 2-minute-talk will change everything.
With that 7 million people tirelessly knocking at your door, distributing bible tracts in the streets, parks, transport vehicles and in every corner of the world, have their own lives too! Like an average working man who has the same set of schedule, they make time for everything especially for that life saving virtue. When they woke up, they allot at least 5minutes to read daily bible text and utter prayer. Within that one hour travel to and from work, they make time to talk to anyone who listens beside them in the buses, trains, and terminals and spread the good news.. During 1 hour break they never loose any opportunity to share a little bit of "life-saving knowledge" to their workmates. When they went home, they spent the remaining 3 hours with their family inculcating in the minds of their little children how does the love for Jehovah will help them to love others too! And at some point they join the early evening witnessing to reach the people who are seldom to find during the day at home.
When taking their day-offs or rest day, instead of enjoying the time sleeping for long hours, they woke up early to do the household chores and immediately run to their perspective territories to join the house to house preaching and was very pleased to visit who shows interest in learning the Bible with their family or set of friends. The time of these individuals never waste anytime to help just to fulfill what Matthew 24:14 says that the good news will be spread to all those inhabited on earth and in 1 Timothy 4:16 (Pay constant attention to yourself and to your teaching. Stay by these things, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who will listen to you). That is called unselfish love.
Despite these hectic and so-busy-life schedule these 7 million individuals doesn't mean that they never had time to enjoy and indulge themselves to be happy, in fact they are happy every time they serve Jehovah and the people even though they also had encountered numerous ups and downs and even persecuted... they never give up! They put faith and trust in Jehovah that He will never took them for granted (Isaiah 42:0) but can you can do the same thing!
"TIME IS GOLD!" that's what the world was thinking but with these 7 million people says: "TIME IS LIFE!"
We are full of life's frustration, several ups and downs, and everything goes but though in this depressed world where you can hear nothing but bad news, you can still find light in the darkness- and the good news is just right knocking upon your door waiting to be opened... So next time when a Jehovah's Witness knock at your door, dare to open... PROMISE "they don't bite nor hurt you neither!"
September 14, 2009
6:00pm
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