Week 13 Psalm 90
It’s month-end so it seemed like good-timing to read: teach us to make the most of our time, so that we may grow in wisdom.
Just a couple of verses above the writer said: seventy years are given to us! Some may even reach eighty. So I have eighty years give-or-take and I’m supposed to make the most of them.
I personalize the verse: teach me to make the most of my time, so that I’ll grow in wisdom.
(The writer says that the Lord is: without beginning or end. It’s a reminder of one way that I’m totally different from the Lord. He doesn’t need to make the most of his time. Time doesn’t apply to him. (But it’s an important factor for me.))
I sit for a bit…wondering what-all’s involved in making the most of my time:
A good starter is to keep in mind that my clock is ticking down…
I figure I should focus-in on today (not time in the abstract)…
Third I remind myself that time is a limited & diminishing resource but I get to allocate it…
And it’s probably good to mentally rate what I’m doing today along a Most Valuable-Least Valuable assessment line…
Finally I remember that mindlessly zombie-ing my way through the day is something to avoid.
March 31 = 24.7% of the year gone. And I’m sitting here wondering how much I’ve made of it.
Note: quotes from Psalm 90:12 10 & 2 (NLT). First quarter reading report: 28.2% completed.