Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Taking care of your soul”
Our Bible verse for today: “Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk – not as unwise people but as wise – making the most of the time, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:15-16
Our thought for today: “To take good care of our soul we must make wise use of our time.”
One of the most common excuses people make for not engaging in the basic disciplines of spiritual formation and soul-care is “I don’t have time.” They think they’re too busy for prayer and Bible study and attending the gatherings of the church family. But that is of course, not true. They do have time. In fact, they have just as much time as anyone else does – 24 hours in every single day. Each of us gets the exact same amount of time every day. The President of the United States has the same 24 hours that you and I do. The difference is found in what we choose to do with those hours. The choices we make about how we will spend our time is what makes the difference between one life and another.
Even if you spend ten hours a day commuting and working, that still leaves fourteen hours in every day. Then if you actually get a full eight hours of sleep, you still have six discretionary hours available to you. If your family takes even half of those left over hours, three of them every day, that still leaves you three more discretionary hours that you can make choices about what to do with. I could go on but I think you get the point. Is it really true that you can’t carve out thirty minutes for prayer and Bible study? You can if it’s important enough. You will spend the thirty minutes on something. Why not on soul-care? Really, what’s more important than taking proper care of your soul?
The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough time, it’s that we don’t make proper use of the time we have. Each of us has all the time we need to do the things God desires us to do. To take good care of our soul we must make wise use of our time.
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 