Is Time Mine?
Theme of the Week: Whose Time Spent Whose Way?
David Henderson
Monday, May 8, 2006
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Key Bible Verse: "For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do what I want" ( John 6:38 ). Bonus Reading: Mark 1:29-39
Typically, we view time as our own. When Jesus comes into the picture that often begins to change. He turns us outward and begins to make us mindful of the needs of others. As we heed Jesus' call to love our neighbors as ourselves, we start to shift from thinking of time as our own to seeing time as belonging to the person in our path.
I'm reminded of the time a weary Jesus tried to duck away with His disciples for some much-needed replenishment. The crowds ran ahead and were waiting on the shoreline when He landed. Jesus' response? "He had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd" ( Mark 6:34 ). He treated the needy people around Him as though His time belonged to them.
Or did He? Mark tells of a time when crowds brought to Jesus their sick and demon-possessed. Jesus healed some of them—but not all. Though there was much more to be done, he moved on (with the explanation in today's Bonus Reading).
A new picture emerges: Jesus viewed His time neither as His own nor as belonging to those who surrounded Him. He understood that His time belonged to the Father, and He spent His time doing those things to which the Father called Him.
—David Henderson in Discipleship Journal
My Response: What is good and what is deceptive about the concept of free time?
Adapted from Discipleship Journal (1-2/05) by permission.
Copyright © 2006 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine. Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity. 1 of 1
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