Just as I got ready to write, my computer popped up one of those notices that say something like, “In 30 seconds we will begin a scheduled scan of your computer to look for problems. While we are scanning, your computer will slow to a crawl, making it impossible for you to get any work done.”
It doesn’t say that, of course, but it might as well. So I did what I’m sure a lot of you do: I clicked the “Run later” button. I don’t have time to wait for it to do its thing. I have more important things to accomplish.
Except that it needs to run sometime to make sure the computer doesn’t later crash and derail my work for a whole week.
That’s the basic problem, of course. That which is both important and urgent crowds out the merely important.
I really need to just make time for computer maintenance. Just as I really need to make time for spiritual maintenance.
Do you experience the same thing? Is it hard for you to take time for prayer, for Bible reading that isn’t just a check-that-off-the-list, for making a phone call to a shut-in, etc.? Are you letting the important-and-urgent (or maybe even the unimportant-but-urgent) overwhelm the merely important?
What are we going to do about that? Just wondering.