Today is the day that Daylight Savings Time begins. Last night you were to ’spring ahead‘ one hour. If you didn’t do that then you found yourself running an hour behind today!
Daylight Savings Time was first observed in 1918 with the Standard Time Act. It was an unpopular idea, even then. In the history of Daylight Savings Time, there have been many changes. Arizona and Hawaii do not recognize the time change, but about 70 countries around the world do. A recent change, beginning in 2007, has daylight time starting on the second Sunday in March and ending on the first Sunday in November.
In the search for the best way to use our time, we can manipulate several things. We can adjust our sleep schedule, our work ours, and some can choose to work from home. We can purchase time saving technological devices to help us get organized. But no matter what we do, there are 24 hours in a day. Arrange them however you like, but you cannot create that 25th hour!
So how are things going in your time management? Have you found time lately to study the Scriptures? Have you felt that you did not have time to pray? Did that important moment when you could have loved and served someone else pass you by? Do you have a long list of things you’d like to do, if only you had time?
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven“.
How much of your time is available for the Lord’s work in your life?
John Dobbs
