I’ve never been great at staying organized. In fact, I would often explain my organizational skills as being “organized chaos”. To the outsider, my piles of clutter look like piles of clutter, but to me they look like a sophisticated filing system that only I can figure out. Lately, I’ve been trying to change that so that I am able to stay organized and do life and ministry more affectively.
To help me make that change, I have been reading some books on being organized. One of those books had some great thoughts about how to start your day so that you feel you had a productive day once it ends. The concept is simple: “Start your day with the most important thing.” Don’t start your day by going on Facebook or watch TV because those things aren’t the most important thing. In fact, if you went a whole day without them you wouldn’t miss out on anything. However, the most important thing for us as Christians to do today is spend time with the Lord.
Most of us would have to admit that we miss out on spending time with God frequently because we try to “fit it” into our day instead of making it the priority of the day. Jesus knew the importance of connecting with His Father as He woke up early before anyone else in order to be alone with Him. (Mark 1:25) What are you going to have to do to make God a priority? Will you have to wake up earlier? Will you have to deny yourself time in front of the TV or on Facebook? Whatever it is, make sure to that spending time with God becomes the most important thing you do today.
