Which seems more urgent to you:
a) your spiritual responsibilities
b) your marital responsibilities
c) your parental responsibilities
d) your pastoral (or other vocation) responsibilities
Which is loudest in your ears:
a) God's still small voice
b) your wife's voice working beside you
c) your kids' voices reverberating off every wall of your house at you
d) or your congregation's voice pumped though phone calls, emails, meetings, and anxiety dreams
If we operate according to urgency, we'll get it wrong...
I talk about this all the time regarding work. Lots of times someone will call with an issue THEY want handled IMMEDIATELY and within 30 minutes 10 other people have been called and cc'd on emails. And 30 minutes later it resolves itself completely, usually with the help of only 1-2 of those people. Among the many reasons this annoys me, one is that it wastes our time and resources and sends us all in panic mode.
ReplyDeleteI don't always remember to apply this in the other aspects of my life, but I do try - and it makes a big difference.
Urgency is all around us, we're inundated with it, all the more reason to keep our priorities in mind.