1 Peter 4:10
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
Now that I'm jobless, I've tons of time.
The conundrum that one has when working is the lack of personal time, but availability of money. So you have the ability to afford things but sadly, time to enjoy it is limited to the weekends and the annual leave. The opposite applies when one is not working; you have the ability to enjoy the time at hand, but limited to the money available.
I must say that I've enjoyed the freedom of not working. The unnerving thing is the worry of when I'll eventually find a job that pays me what I was last worth. Now, that is quite a challenge because it is always easier to find a lower salary job at my stage of the career.
In the many hours that I have, I realised that it is so easy to slack off. For example, I can literally watch TV, surf the net to watch anime or comedies, read an article or two and simply not do anything productive for the whole day. I shock myself at how I can afford to stay at home the whole day without feeling aimless and that makes me only realise how terrible a steward of the time I'm given.
With the days that I live, I would dread to use it all on working in the rat race found in the corporate world. Yet, I cannot possibly use this current phase and waste all the days given to me.
Peter tells the church in this chapter that the end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
Time for me to really be a bit less slack and more sober and pray. For such a time like this, I should be make better use of the time so I can be accountable to God for the time He has given me in this phase of unemployment.
M.
17 February 2014
Time and Stewardship
1 Peter 4:10
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
Now that I'm jobless, I've tons of time.
The conundrum that one has when working is the lack of personal time, but availability of money. So you have the ability to afford things but sadly, time to enjoy it is limited to the weekends and the annual leave. The opposite applies when one is not working; you have the ability to enjoy the time at hand, but limited to the money available.
I must say that I've enjoyed the freedom of not working. The unnerving thing is the worry of when I'll eventually find a job that pays me what I was last worth. Now, that is quite a challenge because it is always easier to find a lower salary job at my stage of the career.
In the many hours that I have, I realised that it is so easy to slack off. For example, I can literally watch TV, surf the net to watch anime or comedies, read an article or two and simply not do anything productive for the whole day. I shock myself at how I can afford to stay at home the whole day without feeling aimless and that makes me only realise how terrible a steward of the time I'm given.
With the days that I live, I would dread to use it all on working in the rat race found in the corporate world. Yet, I cannot possibly use this current phase and waste all the days given to me.
Peter tells the church in this chapter that the end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
Time for me to really be a bit less slack and more sober and pray. For such a time like this, I should be make better use of the time so I can be accountable to God for the time He has given me in this phase of unemployment.
M.
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
Now that I'm jobless, I've tons of time.
The conundrum that one has when working is the lack of personal time, but availability of money. So you have the ability to afford things but sadly, time to enjoy it is limited to the weekends and the annual leave. The opposite applies when one is not working; you have the ability to enjoy the time at hand, but limited to the money available.
I must say that I've enjoyed the freedom of not working. The unnerving thing is the worry of when I'll eventually find a job that pays me what I was last worth. Now, that is quite a challenge because it is always easier to find a lower salary job at my stage of the career.
In the many hours that I have, I realised that it is so easy to slack off. For example, I can literally watch TV, surf the net to watch anime or comedies, read an article or two and simply not do anything productive for the whole day. I shock myself at how I can afford to stay at home the whole day without feeling aimless and that makes me only realise how terrible a steward of the time I'm given.
With the days that I live, I would dread to use it all on working in the rat race found in the corporate world. Yet, I cannot possibly use this current phase and waste all the days given to me.
Peter tells the church in this chapter that the end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
Time for me to really be a bit less slack and more sober and pray. For such a time like this, I should be make better use of the time so I can be accountable to God for the time He has given me in this phase of unemployment.
M.
