Small Deposits of Time
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Andy Stanley, and the Scripture is Ephesians 5:15-16 Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
There is a cumulative value to investing small amounts of time in certain activities over a long period. There are certain things that if you will give them a little bit of time on a consistent basis will have a big payoff at the end. One installment does not make any difference, but it is the adding all of those installments that make the difference.
The reason we ignore this is that there is no immediate benefit to any one singular installment of time. If you have not been exercising and you get all motivated and go out tomorrow and work out hard and you go to work the next day no one is going to look at you and go, Wow, what did you do? Because there is no benefit in any one singular installment it is just easy to think that there is no value in any one installment, but there is cumulative value of investing small amounts of time in certain activities over a long period.
The other reason that we do not do this is that there is no immediate consequence if you skip an installment. If you are pretty regular at exercise and you decide to take Wednesday off it is not like your body falls apart. Because there is no consequence when we skip one installment we begin thinking that there is no benefit from making these installments to begin with.
Because there is no immediate benefit or no immediate consequence, it is easy for us to talk ourselves out of investing those bits of times in the critical disciplines and in the critical relationships and in the critical things that relate to our spiritual life.
If you were God who loves you and knows that your days are numbered and knows the number of your days, what would He say to you about how you use your time?
Small deposits of time over time make all of the difference.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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