I used to work at my daughters' elementary school. The school secretary's Urgent box was always overflowing with papers. I was there one day at her desk, when another staffer happened to examine one of these documents. This supposedly urgent request had been sitting in the box for six months!
"Oh, yes," she said casually. "If you leave them there long enough, they aren't urgent anymore."
How many of our urgent activities can be let go for now so that we can spend a little time remembering that God gave us a gift of new life in Jesus Christ, which we are supposed to be celebrating at this time of year? Take a few minutes right now, and thank him for giving you a fresh start with each new day that comes.
Take time with your loved ones, and I'm not talking about the TO DO list time. Play a game, get eyeball-to eyeball with them, have tea with an elderly relative who has been alone in the retirement home, do something that will count for eternity, not for the Urgent box, that will be forgotten in six months.
Our God has given abundantly to us. What we have in our power to give back are our selves and our time. Let us be careful how we invest them.
But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. The are reborn!
John 1:13a
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