Making Time for Priorities

You have two choices:

• Become the most decorated soldier in the history of the 30th Infantry, OR...
• Read the Old Testament 70 times in your life, and the New Testament 280 times.

(General Harrison on left)

3 Star General William K. Harrison chose both.

Harrison lived an amazing life of military service. He was the first American to enter Belgium in WWII, received numerous medals and honors for valor, and was part of United Nations Command during the Korean Conflict.

He even caught up his Bible reading after three days on the front lines holding off Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. By Harrison's 90th birthday, he had not only read the Bible repeatedly, but was profoundly impacted by it.

And you can't find any time to read the Bible?

Oh how I love your law!
  It is my meditation all the day.
Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies,
  for it is ever with me.
I have more understanding than all my teachers,
  for your testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the aged
  for I keep your precepts.
-Psalm 119:97-100

I've been there. Feeling there's no time to read while finding time for Netflix, video games, and social media. My intention isn't to beat you up, but to remind us of the gifts we receive from God's Word...

• That encouraged me during joblessness
• That reminds me of grace when I realize my sin
• That teaches me to live like Christ

My days spent with the Bible are much better than the ones without it. Would you agree? Then look today at what priorities you need to set to spend your time on the most important things.