Title [Rodem Tree] Tyranny of urgent matters
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someone said this “The day you are living in is the day the person who passed away yesterday has been waiting for so long.” Yes. Not everyone can meet today's day and meet today's moment. In that sense, I do not know how important the days and times I am experiencing today. It is said that Jews give their children a wristwatch when they celebrate their 13th birthday. The reason is not to waste that much time, but to use it wisely.
In order not to waste time, Dr. Ryu Tae-young, who served as the vice president of Konkuk University, has lived his life thoroughly with a daily plan, a weekly plan, a monthly plan, and a year-round plan. Furthermore, even when I was a teenager, begging with a can and polishing my shoes, I had a dream and made a life plan. However, the surprising fact is that in the same year that he planned to study abroad, he was invited by the King of Denmark to study abroad, and the following year, he went to the Blue House and started the Saemaul Undong when he planned to be used for the sake of his beloved country. It was made according to his dream.
Successful people are invariably people who manage their time well. We are living in a busier and busier time than ever. The reality is that ministers are busier than ever. He is too busy attending meetings, attending meetings, and giving sermons without time to look back. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covis said, “Do the things that matter first. However, in many cases, we live our lives regardless of God's will because we are busy.
But Jesus always put the important things ahead of the urgent. Sometimes people flocked to the place where Jesus was, but Jesus escaped and went into the mountain. And he had a close relationship with his father in a secluded place.
Jesus didn't even listen to people's requests. In order to manage your spirituality well, you must learn to say no. Who is Jesus' disciple? Someone who has clear priorities in life. It's good to do a lot of work, but it's more important to prioritize the important things.
There is a book called The Tyranny of Urgency, written in 1967 by Charles Hemmel. In this book, Hemmel says that even if we have 30 hours a day, we will continue to accumulate unfinished work in our lives. But they say that over time, things keep piling up and that it doesn't help solve the problem. So Hemmel, in the end, regards urgent matters as 'a tyrant'. Just as tyrants kill people, urgent things kill us spiritually.
“There are many roads. But life is too short to go all the way.” We are not called to do everything. We don't have the time or the ability to do everything. God doesn't want us to do everything, He wants us to do what matters.
Therefore, we must seek the face of God every morning and listen to the voice of God. And we need to focus on what God wants to do through us. Let's not become addicted to busyness and make my soul sick. Let us not become slaves to urgent matters.