2. We live in a busy and demanding society…
Build Shelf
Visit Hospital
Sketch-up Model
Sleep
Time With Wife
Vacation Plans
Turn in Books
Time to Study
We live in a busy and demanding society…
Exercise
Water Backyard
Call Mom & Dad
Pray
Pay the Bills
Work
TV Show
Oil Change
Clean Garage
Read With Kids

3. Only 24 Hours…

4. Average Work Day, Employed Persons Ages 25 to 54 With Children
A Current Look
Average Work Day, Employed Persons Ages 25 to 54 With Children
Caring for Others
(1.2 hours)
Eating & Drinking
(1.1 hours)
Other
(1.6 hours)
Sleeping
(7.7 hours)
Household Activities
(1.0 hours)
Leisure/Sports
(2.6 hours)
Working
(8.8 hours)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey (ATUS)

5. Time for Study or Prayer?
Average Work Day, Employed Persons Ages 25 to 54 With Children
ATUS asks about time spent in religious or spiritual activities
Average time spent in religious or spiritual activities in 2013 was hours/day (8.4 min)
Only 9% of respondents spent any time in religious or spiritual activities
91% of all survey participants spent a total of 0.0 min engaged in religious or spiritual activities
Caring for Others
(1.2 hours)
Eating
(1.1 hours)
Other
(1.6 hours)
Sleeping
(7.7 hours)
Housework
(1.0 hours)
Leisure
(2.6 hours)
Work
(8.8 hours)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey (ATUS)

6. Eccl. 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all.

7. What should my pie chart look like?

8. Eating, Drinking, Making Merry
How Should It Look?
1 Thes. 5:17
Luke 12:16-21
Prayer
(24.0 hours)
Barn Building
(8.0 hours)
Sleeping
(8.0 hours)
Ease Taking
(3.0 hours)
Eating, Drinking, Making Merry
(5.0 hours)
Our pie somewhere in between?
Time spent selfishly is foolish
Time must be spent developing a closer relationship to God while attending to everything else!

9. Why do we struggle to manage our time?

10. Root Causes
Allow a short-sighted, temporal, possibly selfish view to set priorities
Rich Fool Lk. 12
Martha Lk. 10
Wrong Priorities
Take on too much
Work, school, serving others, etc…
Moses Ex. 18
Over Commit
Circumstances change unexpectedly
Struggle to keep up
Circumstances
Regardless of cause, a biblical view of time can help us do better with our time.

11. Time is Finite
Psalm 90: The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
James 4: Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that." 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
Psalm 39:4-5 "Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am. 5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor.

12. What if I lived each day as if it were my last?

13. My Time? Your Time? God’s Time?
James 4:15 …"If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
The Example of Jesus
John 4:34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, "There are still four months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!”
John 9:4 “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.”

14. What if I viewed each day as a blessing from God?

15. Redeeming the Time Buy up the time!
Ephesians 5: See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Buy up the time!
Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

16. What if I determine to make the most of each day?

17. No Specifics, Just Basics
Caring for Others
(1.2 hours)
Other
(1.6 hours)
Eating & Drinking
(1.1 hours)
Sleeping
(7.7 hours)
Household Activities
(1.0 hours)
Leisure/Sports
(2.6 hours)
Working
(8.8 hours)

18. …Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all
…Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all. For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.