Hello, welcome back for season two of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris

Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies to help you build stronger

relationships, deepen your faith, and just get the most out of your life. Thank you for

joining. Let's get started. Welcome back to the program. Thank you for taking the time to listen

today. Time is the theme for today's episode. We're going to talk about

the way that you and I use our time, and I understand that even setting aside 20 minutes,

wherever you are right now, is an investment you're making. And I want to thank you for your

ongoing support of the Excel Stillmore podcast. Now, I hope to give you

some very practical things to think about in terms of the way you utilize your time, especially

discretionary time, those precious moments where you get to choose what to do. And I believe that

one fairly simple question, a filter, if you will,

for what you choose to do with your time can make all the difference in the world. The title of

this episode is an indicator of what that question will be, and we will get to it shortly.

I don't want to take the entire 20 minutes warning you about obvious realities concerning time,

but it is worth a minute or two just for a casual reminder.

Just about everyone says there is not enough time in the day or in the week to do the things that you would really like to do.

We all know that it is precious, that it passes

all too quickly, and even if you believe you have a lot of it, chances are you've overestimated

what you have to work with. Does the Bible teach this? You know that it does. A variety of passages indicate such, like

James Chapter 4, where it talks about the guy who's going to spend a year in a place and do all

kinds of things, but you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. And it goes on to

talk about how you're just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

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