Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Hellen Keller, Pasteur, Michael Angelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein  ~  H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Well thank you, Captain Obvious, of course we do!  Yet it seems like the daylight fades much quicker than we thought it would, hours blend into days, and days into weeks, and before you know it, it’s next month or next year.

Modern conveniences are supposed to make our lives easier.  Easier to do our work, or prepare a meal.  It’s much simpler now to get an answer from someone across town or to catch up with a friend, but as we introduce more convenience, our days seem to get filled up with the mundane and we fail to enjoy the extra time that should be available.

We’re even sleeping less!  On average Americans sleep 6.8 hours each night, a decrease of almost an hour over the last 20 years.  So things are easier, and we have a little over 17 hours awake each day, but as the song says, time keeps on ticking…ticking.

Seriously – 17 hours, about 1,020 minutes or 61,200 seconds each day – yet if I came up to most folks or even asked myself, “could you do a little extra?” the answer would likely be, “no, I just don’t have the time”.  Now I get it, we don’t have that much time free every day. We still have to go to work and cook meals and well, the list goes on and we find activities to fill our days.

I was thinking about my wife as well as a conversation I had last week about finding time. You see, my wife dedicates a small piece of time each and every day to read her Bible as well as a couple of different devotions.  It amazes me that she manages to find time to do it…wait, 1,020 minutes…surely I could find a few minutes to spend with God each day – honestly we call could.

Roman 12:2 shares with us what some time with God each day can do for us it reads; “Don’t be conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you can figure out what God’s will is – what is good and pleasing and mature.”

Here’s my pledge to you: each night at least 30 minutes before I go to bed, I will set aside my phone, computer, and the TV and spend that time with God, reading His word and spending quiet time in conversation. My challenge for you is to find 5 or 10 minutes with God each day.  See if it doesn’t change your life as I know the time I’m dedicating will change mine.