Tyranny of the Urgent

Great reminder that we all need to focus on those things that really matter. 

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Weekend, January 11 & 12 A New Year to Prioritize Your Priorities One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life. Psalm 27:4 Recommended Reading Psalm 27 In 1967, Charles Hummel published a booklet entitled Tyranny of the Urgent, in which he suggested a reason we're so overworked and disorganized. It's because of jumbled priorities. Hummel relates what an experienced factory manager once told him, "Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important."1 What are the important things in life? Our time with the Lord. Our families. The work only we can do as assigned to us by the Father. But how easily these true priorities are pushed aside by urgent demands each day! Let's reprioritize our priorities. The Book of Common Prayer suggests a prayer of confession that many of us need at the beginning of the year. Condensed, it says: "Almighty Father. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us. Have mercy upon us. Grant, most merciful Father, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of Thy holy name. Amen." Our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities... We have left undone those things which we ought to have done. Charles E. Hummel 1 Charles E. Hummel, Tyranny of the Urgent, Rev. ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1994), 4-5. Read-Thru-the-Bible Genesis 36-41

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