Someone noted, if you get the first button wrong on your shirt, the rest of them will be off as well.
That principle certainly applies to how we spend our time each day. It’s important to have a right beginning. There’s a saying that, “As goes the morning, so goes the day.” It’s true. If we start our day by spending time in Scripture meditation and prayer we start on the right track and stay on the right track. But when we start our day by playing tag with the snooze button and get up just in time to rush out the door for work, things can get out of line worse than a 3 year old’s button up shirt.
Maybe your day is out of sync right now. Before you go any further, undo the buttons and start over. Take the phone off the hook. Get alone with Lord and begin anew so you can still get to the end of your day having redeemed the time.
Rick Grubbs is best known as the host of “Redeeming the Time,” a one-minute radio program featured on hundreds of radio outlets around the world. He has spoken thousands of times on Biblical time management in all 50 states and 26 other countries. He is the author of the book “Morning Momentum: God’s plan for launching an unstoppable day”. He and his wife Carrie live in Salisbury NC with several of their 12 children.
