Making Time For The Important

Making Time for the Important

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time.

Ephesians 5:15-16 (ESV)

IF YOU AGREE that your marriage relationship is important, then what would you like to do to enhance it? Would a “daily sharing time” be helpful? Would a weekly date night be good? How about attending a marriage-enrichment weekend? Decide what would be profitable, and make time to do the important.

I say “make time” because if you don’t put it into your schedule, it won’t happen. Saying yes to the important may mean saying no to the less important. For example, setting aside a daily time for the two of you to talk uninterrupted may require that you give up a thirty-minute television program each night. A weekly date night may require that you eliminate something from your budget to have money for a babysitter. If it’s important, you can make it happen.

The passage above from Ephesians 5 encourages us to be wise in how we use our limited time, and to make the best use of it. Time and money are your assets. You must manage them well in order to accomplish the important. No one else will do it for you. Only you can take control of your life and see that you actually do what you believe you ought to do.

Lord God, it’s so easy for me to get stuck in the way I usually do things and to forget about the really important things. Please help me to make a priority of spending time with my spouse—and help us to set a plan in place so that will happen.

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