"I recently saw a phone app called “Type and Walk.” It uses the phone’s camera to create a transparent document on which you can type while still viewing where you walking. That way you can text and walk at the same time.
I guess the creators of that app where tapping into the market of extreme multaskers. And while that is taking it to an extreme, multasking is a good way to make the most of your time. In fact God commands us to multitask.
In Deuteronomy 6:7 He tells us to focus on the things of God, and teach them to our children, when we are sitting in our house, walking by the way, lying down and rising up. In other words, we look for a way to bring God into the picture all day long in every setting.
I really doubt the “Type and Walk” app works as well as it sounds, but following God’s instructions for multitasking will always redeem the time.
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"Someone has wisely noted that our knowledge is generally in an inverse relationship to its usefulness. By that I mean, we often know a lot about things that matter very little, but we know very little about things that matter a lot.
For example, some men would know all the statistics about the all the major players in their favorite sport. But they have never read a single book on improving their parenting skills. Some women would know all of the latest gossip about their favorite Hollywood celebrities. But if you ask them, ""What does a person need to do to go to Heaven?"" they are clueless.
The knowledge we posess today is a direct result of how we have chosen to spend out time. There aren't enough hours in the day to learn about everything, so we have to choose. When we choose to learn about the things that matter most, especially the things that will matter most in eternity, we've made the choice that redeems the time.
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"How heavily does God weigh into your daily schedule? David Wells writes:
""It is one of the defining marks of our time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that He is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticable. He has lost his saliency for human life. Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God's existence may nonetheless consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgement no more awe-inspiring than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers' sweet fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness. It is a condition we have assigned him after having nudged him out of the periphery of our secularized life.""
As you consider your daily routines, how much weight does God actually carry? If he appears to be nearly weightless, consider what needs to be done to correct the weightlessness and redeem the time.
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"I’ve had the opportunity to share our messages on “Redeeming the Time” in a variety of settings. But one of my all-time favorite meetings was with an Amish congregation in rural Maryland.
The Amish choose to live a simple lifestyle by avoiding ownership of many modern conveniences, such as automobiles. I found it interesting after the meeting that as we were making plans for our family to get to our host family’s house for the night, our children all wanted to ride there in their horse and buggy and their children all wanted to go in our 12 passenger van. I later saw a sign in the Amish house that read, “Happiness is found along the way, not at the end of the journey.”
This humble family will probably never become rich from their small family farm. But, they are already rich in other ways because they’ve discovered real happiness comes from doing and enjoying God’s will. While they may not be “efficient” with time, they’ve still learned to redeem the time.
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