Time Flies

I've had a pretty busy past month finishing up a project for a client, but in the past week, I've been blessed with incredible amounts of time. In consulting, we describe this time period as being, "on the beach." We kind of just...show up to work with not much to do and wait until you get staffed on a new project and usually a new client.

Of course I'm sitting around wondering what to do. And for about 40 hours during the week, I read several articles and even resorted to making models for fun to pass time. But when I finished doing all of those, I was just incredibly bored. Then someone reminded me that all this extra time could be a gift from God to use it for Him.

After all, didn't God give us time on earth?

I kind of felt like the man in the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-28) who received a talent from his Master only to dig it in the ground and do nothing with it. The Master comes back and praises the other two servants who doubled the talents that the Master gave them, but he denounces the one who did nothing. "You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest."

God gave me time, and I didn't use it :-(. It just went away and I'm not getting it back. I got restaffed today.

But there's a lesson to be learned here. It's okay, because now I know. I will never get that time back, but now that I've learned, shouldn't I challenge myself to be more like the other two servants who actually went out and worked harder when they were graced and entrusted with talents and time from God?

It's a calling for us to go out and do more. Read the Bible more, reflect more, or even better, go out and love more. Do something. Use that extra time and work for God's kingdom, because now that I see it, God would be most happy if I recognized His gift to me and if I used it.