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Biblical Time Management Paper
Ariel M. Barr
CLED 365: The Personal Development of a Leader
September 04, 2023
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Contents
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….…….1
Christ & Time Management………………………………………………………………..….1
Unmanaged Time & Their Laws………………………………………………………..……..2
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………...….3
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………….4
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Introduction With everything that we do and attempt to do on a daily basis, we need to manage it with
time. We need to have an ordained time slot for almost everything that we deem important and
try to stick with this time frame in order to have an ordered private and public life. This same
idea is expressed throughout MacDonald’s book, Ordering Your Private World
, but more
specifically in chapters 6 and 7. Beginning in Chapter 6, MacDoonald discusses the ways that
Christ managed His time even though it seems as if He had no time to manage. In Chapter 7,
MacDonald discusses the four laws associated with unmanaged time and how to refute these
laws with simple, or not so simple, lifestyle changes. The purpose of this paper is to delve into
the intricacies of time management as MacDonald expounds upon in his book through the lens of
Jesus and disorganized people.
Christ & Time Management The very first thing that MacDonald informs us about Jesus’ time management is that Jesus understood His mission. Furthermore, Jesus understood that His mission would never interfere with His time management because He made the decision that what seemed unimportant to others was actually a strict part of His mission in life. Since He measured His time against His mission, not including the fact that He is the Messiah, He always had time, and nothing ever overlapped
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. In tandem with knowing Hiss mission and never having to sacrifice His time, Jesus also knew His limits. MacDonald expounds upon this idea as he travels into the theology of Jesus being the incarnate Son of God and setting aside His place in heaven to obtain human limitations. He knew that there had to limitations to, not just His time, but to time in general when it comes to delegating the need for strength in order to compensate for upcoming 1
MacDonald
, Ordering Your Private World
, 74.
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weakness in spiritual warfare
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. Lastly, MacDonald talks about how Jesus spent His valuable time
with teachable, ordinary people who would perpetuate His legacy long after He would ascend. Jesus said no to many invitations and countless demands so that He could put His time into what mattered the most to His purpose
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. Jesus, while being the literal Chosen One, had a great handle on time management and how to allocate His attention properly in order to accomplish His mission in time span of three years. With managing His time well, Jesus did not have to experience the detrimental laws of unmanaged time. Unmanaged Time & Their Laws
MacDonald, after expounding upon the ways that Jesus managed His time here on earth, listed and explained four laws of unmanaged time that the average disorganized person faces in the long run. The first law is that unmanaged time will flow toward weakness
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. Meaning, the more a person spends time on doing something that they are good at, they will sacrifice the thing that they are great at. A prime example of this is when Jesus was on the cross and could have gotten Himself down
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, but he knew that dying was a better use of His time because it was part of His mission. Gathering our greatness and setting aside what we are good at will help regulate and
maximize the unmanaged time we were dealing with. The second law that MacDonald presents is that the origin of unmanaged time comes from the influence of dominant people who take advantage of said time
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. This comes from the notion that if a person does not have control of their time, others, who are influential, will abuse this 2
MacDonald
, Ordering Your Private World, 75. 3
MacDonald
, Ordering Your Private World, 75.
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MacDonald
, Ordering Your Private World, 79.
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Holy Bible, New International Version
, Mark 15:29-32.
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MacDonald
, Ordering Your Private World, 80.
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disadvantage and take up another’s schedule. When exercising not letting people dominate your time in the real world, we can look to Jesus who filled His time with His mission. When our time
is filled doing what we are called to do, our mission, dominant people will not have a chance to influence our time. The third law is that unmanaged time goes under the submission of emergencies
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. If a disorganized person has a schedule that is unmanaged and an emergency comes up, they will deem the emergency as a viable reason to abandon anything else that was important in their schedule. Jesus shows us in the death of Lazurus that not all emergencies are emergent
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. Jesus knew that He could raise Lazurus from the dead because He knew his power, but He knew His mission needed Him to stay where He was to issue a greater message through the resurrection of Lazurus. In real life situations, we may need to figure out if something that seems emergent can be figured out at a later date when you are free in order to bring your time under submission.
The last law that MacDonald expounds upon is that unmanaged time gets people invested in things that gain public attention
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. This idea that doing something pubic may somehow inform that some structured is happening in private, when in reality your time is unmanaged. Just because praise and acclamation produce immediate gratification does not mean that our schedules are sound and managed. Jesus explicitly did acts, miracles, signs, and wonders that gained Him bad publicity
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and there are even accounts where Jesus told His disciples not to tell 7
MacDonald
, Ordering Your Private World, 81. 8
Holy Bible, New International Version, John 11:11-15.
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MacDonald
, Ordering Your Private World, 83. 10
Holy Bible, New International Version, Luke 6:7, Matthew 12:2.
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anyone what they had seen
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. Jesus stayed on task and on time even if it meant being in the direct line of hate and ridicule instead of immediate praise. Conclusion Overall we see that the foundation of time was match for Jesus, as the Son of God and as a human. He seamlessly fought the stigma of being disorganized by knowing His mission, not doing anything outside of His mission, spending time with others who would further His legacy, and honed His spiritual strength in the process. Looking at and utilizing the tactics that Jesus used, one, in their own life, can begin to tackle the hinderances that unmanaged time will bring. Having an unmanaged schedule will bring about people who will dominate your time, emergencies that will overtake your time, weaknesses that will waste your time, and frivolous activites that will cost your time. Be like Jesus, not in just a holy way but in a time honoring way. Bibliography
Macdonald, Gordon. Ordering Your Private World
. 2003. Reprint, Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2017. Accessed August 21, 2023. https://app.logos.com/books/LLS
%3A8A9A7D6D4AD4CD49933031745AAF68B1/references/page.65?layout=one
. Holy Bible: New International Version
. 1996. Reprint, Carol Stream, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, 2015.
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Holy Bible, New International Version, Mark 1:41-42.
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