What Is Your Time Perspective?
Christian behaviorism is an area of study that has long interested me. The believer was never given the right to change his/her bad behaviors and subsequently DO good behavior but instead has been given the capacity to recognize bad behavior as revealed by God and then the responsibility to trust God as He changes that behavior and leads us in the good behavior He has already designed for us (Eph.2:10). This is a basic New Covenant truth. But this truth is such a big struggle for the Christian especially in today’s society because of the growing want to see God doing His work in us immediately. The “I want it all and I want it now” mentality otherwise known as living in the present or Hedonism.
Turns out that our perspective of time very much impacts how we live our lives. I invite you to watch the below video produced by the 250 year old London-based Royal Society for the advancement of the Arts (RSA). By no means do I subscribe to all of the RSA’s worldly philosophies but I do find that this specific video presents some fascinated scientific analysis that Christians can appreciate. As you watch this video think about your personal time perspective. Do you live your life based upon the way things have always been? Do you live for the ‘now’ wanting immediate gratification? Or do you live with the hope that what God is doing, seen and unseen, is far better than anything you could ever orchestrate – a hope that brings God’s rest and peace into your present state of living?
Open our eyes Lord and teach us to trust and rest in You in our daily living.
As an educator, I could not agree more. My colleagues and I talk about these issue more and more. A a believer it saddens me how we have allowed life to take over Life.