He spoke on me today

I got up this morning to do my usual ho hum morning activities. And no so atypical of a sunday I rolled over the sermon channels and decided to stop on Mr. Price. My pop used to watch him all the time and so his style of preaching is tolerable and even sometimes welcome in my view.

Anyway, today part of his sermon was on how we as people are so open to the idea of being in cue and waiting in line for random services such as airports, mechanics and the ever time expensive department of motor vehicles. We accept that we must show up hours in advance and dedicate portions of our schedules for these activities, but overlook this type of dedication and unfortunate respect for time for other things in our lives.

Our family, our friends, ourselves and our Lord. We commonly wait until the last minute to meet up with family or friends, go to our doctors, and leave for church. Yet, we submit that we must show up early for events which do not tender the same returns as the aforementioned.

I've never been an overly timely person, and as such I make it a point today to change that in myself. To value punctuality more and the message that being prepared in advance holds for those it entails.

Happy New Year.