Living From Sunday 2 Sunday
Living From Sunday 2 Sunday
EP 176: Time: The Gift We Can't Reclaim
"Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." With these ancient words from Psalm 90:12 as his foundation, Pastor B delivers a powerful message about the irreplaceable nature of time and how we can live with greater intention.
Have you ever found yourself caught in life's routine—waking up, working, coming home, sleeping, and repeating the cycle day after day without truly appreciating each moment? Pastor B vulnerably shares his personal struggle with chronic procrastination and the revelation that transformed his approach to daily living. Time, unlike money or material possessions, can never be recovered once it's spent. This sobering truth should revolutionize how we approach each morning we're blessed to see.
The podcast explores the fundamental shift that happens when we view each day as a separate gift rather than merely a continuation of yesterday. This perspective helps break the "autopilot" mentality that can rob us of purposeful living. Pastor B offers practical wisdom about gratitude as a starting point for intentional living, encouraging listeners to thank God for each new day before charting a course for how to use it wisely.
In a particularly relevant segment, Pastor B addresses the modern challenge of digital distraction. Acknowledging his own weakness for "endless scrolling," he shares how he's implemented boundaries around social media consumption and replaced those hours with more enriching activities like reading for education, recreation, and spiritual formation. In what he calls our current "attention economy," where companies profit from capturing and maintaining our focus, wisdom demands that we become more conscious about how we spend our limited time.
Whether you're struggling with procrastination, feeling like life is passing by too quickly, or simply wanting to live with greater purpose, this episode offers both spiritual insight and practical strategies. Subscribe now and join the conversation about transforming how we approach each precious day we're given. Real change happens fifteen minutes at a time—make this your best fifteen minutes today!
Welcome to the Living From Sunday to Sunday podcast with your host, pastor B. This podcast is designed to help you walk faithfully with God through the various trials and challenges this life presents. The truth of who we are is revealed in our lives in between Sundays. You will be inspired, challenged and equipped to live a victorious life that will bring glory to God himself. Come on, let's get started. Hello, welcome to another episode of the Living from Sunday to Sunday podcast. I am your host, astor B. I believe that this is the best 15 minutes of your day, because real change happens 15 minutes at a time. So please do me a favor like, share and subscribe to the podcast, whether you're watching via video on my YouTube page or if you're listening audio. I'm so happy that you are here with us today.
Speaker 1:So today's episode is something I've been thinking about in looking at my life and understanding that time is valuable. Time is one of the things that we can never get back. Right, if you lose money, you can make more money Anything tangible in the earth if you lose it. Most things you can get back, but time is something that we can never retrieve, and so I was looking at a scripture the other day, and it's found in Psalms 90 and 12. It says so teach us to number our days so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. And I look at the scripture and I think about the need to understand why maximizing every day is important. A lot of times whenever we wake up and I don't know if it's just me, but a lot of times whenever we wake up the routine of our lives can cause us to just operate. Our lives can cause us to just operate and kind of live machine-like right we wake up, work out, we go to go to work, we come back, we kiss, love our children, our spouses, we do whatever we plan to do that day, we go to sleep and then we just repeat the cycle over and over and over again. And one of the things that I was looking at was have I ever asked myself what is the purpose of my day? Have I strategically set a goal for my day?
Speaker 1:Because teaching us to number our days, I believe, is the understanding that God wants us to know that every day is important. Every day is important and one of the grounding principles of this concept is to know that every day is a gift, I think, whenever we just wake up without the gratitude and the appreciation that today is a separate day from yesterday, like it's not a continuation of the previous day, but it's literally a separate day. It's another chance, another moment in time for us to do whatever God has called us to do, and we should start each day. Whenever we are allowed to see another day, we really should be thankful and grateful for that. Sometimes, without having the necessary attitude of gratitude, we can take for granted the day that we have, and so when we take for granted the day that we've been given, then there's no real intention behind um accomplishing anything that day. Uh, we're just trying to check off the boxes that we had already preset, not really understanding that planning for tomorrow is great, but we should appreciate the opportunity to fulfill the plan that we've set for each day, and so the appreciation, knowing that God allowed us to live another day, is a blessing. You know we really.
Speaker 1:You know I've seen people lose family members tragically, instantly, over these last couple of days, and it's made me understand that it's so fleeting. Life really is fleeting. You know, I turned 43 last November and the day that I'm recording this is the last day of May. So five days, full months of the year 2025 has passed and it just does not seem like time is slowing down at all. Right, you blink and we're in June, basically, right, be appreciative and really, in our brains and in our hearts, slow ourselves down and really thank God for every moment, every opportunity.
Speaker 1:And then the second part of that scripture encourages us to apply our heart toward wisdom, right? So, lord, teach us to number our days, teach us to appreciate, teach us to be intentional about our day, teach us, even God, to not take days off, right, not take anything for granted, not putting off tomorrow, but we really have the ability to do today, like these are like familiar cliches that you've heard in your life, but I think sometimes the procrastinator in us all doesn't appreciate the value of the 24 hours that we're given, and so we put off things with the expectation that we'll have another opportunity or another chance to do these things. And I think that is a whenever we know we frame our lives like that, it is from a place of not thanking God for each day that we don't understand that it's a gift, right? So I am someone who has always, unfortunately, been a chronic procrastinator, but this particular scripture and these thoughts that I've had over the last couple of days have really just kind of helped, kind of center me around. Hey, today you need to really, you know, start with Thanksgiving and then chart your day, right, and then, at the end of the day, thank God that you made it to that day and then be grateful for the next morning, right? So apply our hearts toward wisdom. I believe is properly stewarding the time that we have. Lord, show me how to be wise, not to make the same mistakes that I've made in the past. Lord, help me to make better choices, to make better decisions. Lord, if you're asking me to take a risk or to take a leap of faith, lord, help me to know that, one, I'm following your voice, but, two, that you are with me. And even if this leap of faith takes me in a place that's uncomfortable, takes me to a place that is outside of my norm, that because I'm following your lead, then it is a wise choice, it is something that is going to teach me, something that can anchor me for the rest of my days, right, and so our full approach to managing our time, to being appreciative of what he's given us, I think, is such a sobering thought because it really focuses us on identifying those areas that causes us to waste time. Right, I've made a conscious choice because I talked about you know me being a procrastinator.
Speaker 1:One of the things I realized when I looked at how I manage my time is how much time I spend on socials and how just much time is wasted and there's nothing really to show for it. Right? The entertainment value isn't really producing risk. The joy that it produces is short lived. The humor that sometimes I'm looking for is short lived, right, and so I really had to assess that. I really had to look and see and ask myself why am I on it, why am I on it so long and can anything be adjusted?
Speaker 1:What I decided to do was I decided to take a brief sabbatical from endless scrolling, and that's where most of the time wasting was coming in. I would just be scrolling on socials just to be scrolling, right, and it wasn't really being productive in my personal life. It definitely wasn't super productive spiritually and I found myself really being distracted. So what I've noticed is, when I schedule as a content creator, I've learned now to just schedule my posts, take a couple of hours, think about what I'm going to say, write it up, type it up and then schedule it. So, like this podcast, I'm recording on a Saturday evening and all of the content for next week, so that, even if I do choose to hop on Facebook, hop on Twitter, hop on TikTok, even my mind and my heart has given me a limit of just maybe a minute or two.
Speaker 1:Like, oh, time for you to go back to, you know, reading and that's something, too that I've had to learn is, you know, if I've acknowledged that my social media time has been wasteful, then I have to fill that time with something that's productive. And so, yeah, I am going back to reading, reading a lot of various things for education, for recreation and then for spiritual formation. Yeah, like, let's really be cognizant of our time, because there's so many things that are fighting for our attention. We live in an attention economy right now, so people are getting rich off of the fact that they can keep your attention for various reasons and for various causes. Right, so we just have to really really be, be mindful of that, you know, assess where we are and make the necessary corrections. Ok, that's all I have to say today.
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