Priority

One thing that i've never thought about regarding priorities is the importance of what it is describing. Priorities is a wonderful God-given word that explains the times and season we are in. 

To better understand what i mean by this - we must take ourselves back to a few weeks ago when i attended KEC. This one talk kept on coming back to me over and over again - by Kirk Partson. It was quite an eye opening and wonderful message to me. It was regarding time. 

His main passage was taken from Ecclesiastes 3 which is about time. It says :

1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven:

2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,

3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,

4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,

6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,

7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,

8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

btw.. have i written a post about this before? niway... doesn't matter heiheie.. but the main point was - 

we - nowadays, sees time as hourly, minute and seconds. There's even an expression that says "time is money". To us, time is precious. Every second that goes by without us doing anything productive can mean that we are unproductive, we are not performing and we are wasting the precious time given to us. 

But this passage tells us something more than just the shallow view that we have about time. This passage tells us that time is more than just minute / hour/ second, time in the Bible is a season. A season to love, a season to love, a time to die, a time to be born. 

And to me this message is just so liberating and merciful. I'm glad that i was graciously given the opportunity about this message. 

The reason i said this is because lately, I am feeling a bit unproductive. I know that i should be catching up, discipling and evangelising to ppl, but i cannot. I know that i have to study. I know that at this very moment i cannot give my all to all those relationship related ministry. I cannot. My brain is used up to study and to understand the material that i am studying. Everytime i meet up with anyone, i know that i cannot love them as much because my mind is too occupied witht things that i've just learned, and my body too tired to even THINK of anything encouraging. 

But this passage tells us otherwise... 

which i will continue writing later... because i'm too tired ehhe - n currently listening to a sermon about the tongue..