“Each time he said, ‘My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.’”

When we see or hear, “serving time” we think about those who are incarcerated and are waiting out the time of their sentence.  But, we also can feel this way when we are doing any activity that we don’t want to be doing and we just can’t wait for it to end.  At work we call these people “clock watchers”, but we would be disingenuous if all of us didn’t say that we have experienced this in our careers.  It’s impossible for every day of work to be so exciting and enthralling that the day flies by.  Our challenge is to get ahead of this and ensure that each of our employees don’t have any reason to look at the clock.  A good place to start is with meetings.  How many are your employees attending each day?  How long are these meetings?  How productive are they? After meetings, take a look at other activities that might feel like time being wasted. A moment felt like time is being served, is a moment of productivity lost.

When Paul replayed what he had heard God say to him about God’s grace being enough and being all that he needed, it was in context of Paul trying to understand an affliction/handicap that he experienced in his life.  Yet, it is clear that God gave him these words of comfort for all of us who feel like we carry any burden that makes us want to just get time to pass us through to the other side. We each have things that will make us want to get time to move faster.  We don’t want to find ourselves sitting in this situation.  Our time on this earth is short and precious and we don’t want to wish any of it away.  Today as we head to work,let’s  make the most of each moment.  Consider that each interaction, each email and phone call is an opportunity to share our faith, encourage someone else and leave behind an impression of God’s love and glory working through us.  

Reference: 2 Corinthians 12:9 (New Living Translation)