Life Management And Our 1st Gift To Manage...

As some of you who have been reading here know, I'm trying to follow this new personal experiment of treating each day as a treasure and not a commodity (see more here).

Because of this I've decided to go over some thoughts I've had before about Life Management.I need to do this for my benefit, but I thought it might help you too. Here they are...

Life Management & The 1st Gift

God has given me (and will give me) all of the "raw materials" and opportunities I need to reach my full potential.

At the end of my life, I'm not going to be able to blame God that he didn’t give me what I needed to make it in this life.

Whether I reach my full potential, or not, will be based on how I managed what I've been given.

Did I waste my gifts or cherish them?

I believe there are 5 important raw materials we've been given to form our life with. I'm call these 5 raw materials of life "5 Gifts" that God has given us to manage.

We all like getting gifts. I don’t know anyone who hates getting gifts!

But a gift always leaves us with a choice:
Will I accept it and use it or will I reject it and throw to the side?

The question is... Will I accept the "5 gifts" God's given me or reject them? Use them or abuse them?

An unaccepted or unused gift isn’t any better than no gift at all.

I'm going to blog about five of the top gifts that we all need to manage if we want our lives to be better and different.

Today I'm going to start looking at the first gift.

It’s Time!

If you think about it, this is a pretty amazing gift.

Everyday we’re given 1440 minutes. If you sleep 7 hours you end up with 1020 awake minutes to use. That’s it!

This gift is the basic building blocks of my life.
I have just 1020 minutes to make today better or different than yesterday.

This is the only gift we’re going to look at that’s refillable.
We're all given a new equal amount of each day.
We get a NEW 1440 minutes everyday.

I get the same amount you do.

Old and young get the same amount.
Rich and poor get the same amount.

All the other gifts I'm going to blog about will be things that some of us have more of OR some of us might have less of.

We all get a new amount of time each day, but this is the scary part…

None of us know how much TOTAL amount of time we’re going to get in life. Only God knows!

Ps. 139:16 says...

"You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed."

None of us know how much time we have left.
Some of us here will live longer lives than others of us.

We don’t get to decide how long we live.
We only get to decide how meaningful we make our lives!

Time really is an incredible loving gift that God has given us.

In my next post I'll look at how God packaged time for our benefit.