redeeming your time 7

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00:00The Life of Jesus and His Disciples was Busy

00:05But as my friend John Mark Comer has pointed out,

00:08Jesus never came off hurried. Pastor Kevin DeYoung put it this way.

00:14Jesus was busy, but never in a way that made him frantic, anxious, irritable, proud, envious,

00:20or distracted by lesser things. So, what's the difference between busyness and hurry?

00:27Busyness is having a lot of meetings on your calendar.

00:30Hurry is scheduling those meetings back-to-back forcing you to sprint from one to the next

00:35without enough time to think. Busyness is having a lot of errands to run.

00:40Hurry is getting mad about choosing the wrong line at the grocery store because you have no

00:46margin for the 30 seconds you lost by choosing lane 3 instead of 4. Busyness is attending 3

00:52Bible studies a week. Hurry is not having enough time and stillness to listen to God's voice in

00:58between those studies. How can we be busy without being hurried? We must get good at

01:05counting the cost of our time. Jesus provides an excellent case study of this in Mark 11.

01:13Verse 15 tells us that Jesus' plan all along was to overturn some tables and drive out the vendors

01:19who were turning the temple into a den of robbers. Mark 11 verse 17. So why not do this the night

01:26before? Why wait? Of course, we can't answer those questions definitively. But given Jesus'

01:34track record as a busy but unhurried guy, here's my guess. I think Jesus had counted the cost of

01:40his time. Look at Mark 11 verse 11. Jesus went into the temple courts, looked around at everything,

01:48but since it was already late, decided not to cram any more activity into what had already

01:53been a busy day. You can almost hear him muttering to himself. It can wait. Could

01:59Jesus have squeezed in a little table flipping before he retired for the night? Sure, but he

02:05chose not to. He had counted the cost and knew that adding anything else to his already busy day

02:11would have tipped the scales from busy to hurry. Jesus' example brings us to the seventh and final

02:17principle we need to redeem our time. Principle 7. Eliminate All Hurry

02:24To redeem our time in the model of our Redeemer, we must embrace productive

02:28busyness while ruthlessly eliminating hurry from our lives. How can we eliminate hurry today?

02:34Part of the answer is getting better at saying, No, to requests for our time.