by: Bro. Allan Tigue
Bro. Allan Tigue talks at San Carlos Seminary on Friday, June 20, 2014, as Single Friends gather on its weekly Journey. In his teaching, he stresses out that:
- Many desire to serve but only few remain to commit a quality time.
- Provision of time, treasures and talents would be futile in the absence of a commitment on time.
- Unnoticeably, time appears to be more significant than love because of the "absence of time to love."
- Everybody is given with 86,400 seconds a day . No one can turn the clock to its old setting to redo what has been missed yesterday, unlike the picture taking which can craft a retake.
- Life is like a coin which you can spend today but you can spend it only at once.
- Going to and fro "As If Doing Something" (AIDS) is exhausting, frustrating, boring and disappointing than keeping oneself truly busy.
- Time management is not the problem but management of oneself because of stressful priorities and plans.
Jesus exemplifies a perfect time management. In His lifetime, He preaches, heals, evangelizes, affirms the children, and befriends with people; a well managed life with a balanced sense of a lifestyle. However, never could we find in the Scripture that Jesus rushes.
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| Single Friends while relaxingly and enjoyingly listening to the preaching without any marks of weariness from their respective offices and schools |
Psalm 90 1-4 Lord, you have been our refuge through all generations. Before the mountains were born, the earth and the world brought forth, from eternity to eternity you are God. You turn humanity back into dust, saying, “Return, you children of Adam!” A thousand years in your eyes are merely a day gone by, Before a watch passes in the night.
Psalm 90:12 Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart.
God has given all of the time that we need to accomplish what we need to do.
5 Keys of time management
A physics teacher asks her student for a seatwork to fill the jar with marbles, big stones, and water without leaving anything but fit them all in. No one solves the brainteaser.
The teachers says, learn to make priority. Place the big stones first. Afterwhich, pour the marbles to fill the gaps in between the big stones. Then add the grain of sands to fill the remaining gaps and finally the water.
Implication: Time management also demands prioritization. God should be everyone’s top priority.
Matthew 8:21-22 Another of (his) disciples said to Him, "Lord, let me go first and bury my father." but Jesus answered him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead."
Luke 9:61-62 And another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family and at home. (To him) Jesus said, "No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fir for the kingdom of God.
Setting priority can be equalled to a soldier who does not necessitate yet to say first a farewell before engaging in a battle.
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| Single Friends Head Shepherd Bro. Marlon Owe as he announces future activities. |
Time is equally given with an equal value and magnitude, just like having a perforated 500 denomination against ownership of a crispy 500 bill whose value does not vary when exchanged by the Central Bank.
2. Build Relationship
Matthew 22:28-39 He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it. You shall love your neighbor, as yoursel.
Matthew 22:28-39 He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it. You shall love your neighbor, as yoursel.
3. Take time to plan – Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent are sure of profit, but all rash haste leads certainly to poverty.
Bro. Max Estayo has been with the corporate world, a dedicated shepherd of the community, from a well-off family and with dependable income, but demonstrates his flexibility aligning to God’s call when he submits to a vocation on priesthood.
If it’s God’s will, it happens because God is in control.
It matters what we do with our time because time is short.
Luke 12:18:20 And he said, "This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry! But God said to him, "You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?"
The greatest enemy of the “BEST” is not the “BAD”. God’s plan is always the best which man opposes most often.
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| FDMC Head Shepherd Bro. Allan Tigue and Music Ministry Head Bro. Waldee as they audition Single members aspiring for music right after Fellowship.. |
It matters what we do with our time because time can be wasted.
How much time do you spend at work, gadget and socialization versus time spent with God?
It matters what we do with our time because time can be accounted.
Remember the song “Hiram Lang" (A Borrowed Life). Time is a gift. “I’d rather more have time than money.” Look at the bedridden. They’re beseeching for a life extension.
T – reasures
I – invest
M – anage
E – enjoy your time
Which is which?
Ecclesiastes 3:11-14 He has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts, without men's ever discovering, from beginning to end, the work which God has done. I recognized that there is nothing better than to be glad and to do well during life. For every man, moreover, to eat and drink and enjoy the fruit of all his labor is a gift of God. i recognized that whatever God does will endure forever; there is no adding to it, or taking from it. Thus has God that he may be revered.
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