Abstracted from The Heart of a Great Pastor
A TV commercial in our viewing area ends with the question, "What's in your wallet?" The idea: We carry evidences in our wallet of what we most value - pictures, identification, receipts, credit cards, insurance coverage and money. The more I realised the question for workers of God should be, What's on your calendar?
As the Psalmist wrote in the beautiful 139th psalm, "All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (v.16). I sometimes wonder how my calendar compares with His. And I wonder about you - what's on your calendar.
Does each day note adequate time for you to spend with your Lord? Does your calendar provide sufficient time to show honor and concern for your family members? Does each month have a notation that reads "sowing", "evangelism","quality time with my leader and shepherd" or "basketball game with my friends Friday at 7.00pm"?
How about clearing an afternoon each week to walk in the "park" and rub shoulders with those in your community who need to see you from a perspective outside the pulpit? Oh, and what about your day off? Do you guard it, or do you allow other things to take away your sabbath? Is your vacation scheduled? If you don't do it soon, the pages will inevitably fill up with other things.
I don't mean to belabor the point, but your calendar tells more about you that anything else. It speaks of your spiritual discipline, your priorities and, most of all, your intimacy with the God who called you and gave you a special gift called family.
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As the new year 2008 draws near, why not start planning for your new year by getting a monthly planner for yourself. Take sometime to reflect on the past 2007 of what have you done and what have you achieve. Think about your successes, as well as your failures. Think about what God have done in your life in 2007. Then start thinking about what are the things you want to achieve for yourself, and for God in 2008. Strategize your life according to God's plan, visionalize your next one year together with God's prompting and priorities. How you're going to plan the way you spend your 2008 will determines very well your intimacy with God. How much He makes a difference in your life. How important is God in you. Think about it =)
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