Get a Grip on Time:

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Get a Grip on Time

• God invented the schedule

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We need markers in our day, our week, our month,
our year that will deliberately bring us to
balance and discipline markers that hasten us to
worship and acknowledge our God.
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The Holy Calendar (reminders)

• People belong to God.
• The agricultural feasts reminded people that
  nature belonged to God.
• The seasonal calendar reminds people of the
  cycles of re-creation.

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The Holy Calendar (reminders)

• God used the calendar to establish community.
• The calendar preserved heritage and national
  identity.
• The calendar facilitated people praising God
  together.
• The festivals memorialized Gods redemptive work.

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Get a Grip on Time

• You can approach the day in one of two ways
  either what do you have to do today, or what does
  the day have for you?

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Get a Grip on Time

• Carpe Opportunae Seize the Opportunity

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• God invented the schedule
• God speaks everyday

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Opportunity comes from

• Latin Opportunus
• Phrase ob portum veniens

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Get a Grip on Time

• Value Interruption

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Mark Buchanan The Rest of God, Restoring Your
Soul by Restoring the Sabbath (Word, 2005).
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The wind blows where it pleases. You hear its
sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or
where it is going. So it is with everyone born
of the Spirit (John 38).
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Truly purposeful people have an ironic secret
They manage time less and pay attention more. The
most purposeful people I know rarely overmanage
time, and when they do, it's usually because
they're lapsing into drivenness, into a loss of
purpose for which they overcompensate with mere
busyness. No, the distinguishing mark of
purposeful people is not time management.
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It's that they notice. They're fully awake.
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Get a Grip on Time

• Know Your Season (Ecc. 3)

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Get a Grip on Time

• Finish (2 Timothy 46-8)

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