Today I read a quote in my PathwayConnect curriculum that really hit me hard.
The Lord knows that you have more to do than you have time for. The real test in this life is what we choose to spend our time on. It’s a question of priorities.
I don’t know that I had ever thought of this life as a test of how we spend our time. Of course everyone knows our time is limited. We all will die. But I think we almost always, for those of us who believe, say that this life is a test of whether we will choose to follow the commandments of God, or choose to make and keep covenants.
And there is nothing wrong with that phrasing.
I just realized that phrasing it differently helps me to think of it differently. When I get home today I will be hot and sweaty from the bike ride home. It is about 4 miles straight uphill. The ride to work is pleasant, the ride home less so.
And that is another thing I spend less time on than I should – physical health. A 4 mile bike ride uphill shouldn’t wipe me out.
But I digress – I will be hot and sweaty and I will walk around for about 20 minutes while my body cools down, then take a shower, and then lay down in my bed. I am scheduled to cook tonight, so I won’t lay down long, but I will lay down, then cook, then eat, then lay down for the rest of the night.
Or at least that would be what I normally do. Tonight I will be productive until I go to sleep.
Because the real test of this life is what we choose to spend our time on.
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