The Gem of an Era
We often hear this phrase, “time is of the essence.” It insinuates the immediate attention we must give to our time. It emphasizes the importance of time management with a project and highlights the fatality of a deadline. It emphasizes the importance of speed and completing tasks promptly.
The thing about rushing to finish tasks is that we often overlook small details that can lead to great mistakes. Picture discovering a construction defect in your dream property. The home you envisioned, or your business space, may have experienced miscalculations during the architectural or engineering planning stages, resulting in construction flaws and mechanical system issues. Your beloved dream home turns out to be uneven or moves beyond your property lines.
That within itself would be an overwhelming tragedy.
Even worse, some of us are building our lives like it’s a construction site with a fatal deadline in mind. Our existence on this Earth is not some “project.” We live in a world where society is pursuing marriage, children, family life, degrees, status, wealth, career, health, and social relationships, to survive a social standard that dings points off, since it has made us to be a walking credit score. We’ll chase after health to fit into the vanity of society rather than caring for our lungs. We’ll chase marriage to fight against loneliness rather than accept a covenant and partnership. We will live to survive from the trauma of childhood rather than live to become an adult who discovers the beauty of life. This existence can become riddled with mechanical errors and turmoil within our soul and spirit. In our haste to construct a fulfilling life, we may overlook the essential aspects that require our attention, such as loneliness, feelings of abandonment, grief, or remorse.
Society creates a shame that if you are not this or have that by this age, your value and worth are deducted like points. Society is screaming in the streets, “time is of the essence,” as if it’s to remind you of your timeline of life. If we decide to move with the pace of this world, we’ll always conclude with constructional flaws. We’ll have flaws of anxiousness, worry, trauma, and insecurity. We’ll have no peace. A heart full of confusion. A mind that trembles and is fragile.
To the Reader
If we rush, build up our own lives with haste, or accept a system that invites shame, we’ll miss the hand of God, who is most careful in the engineering details of our lives. When we let God be our contractor, engineer, and architect, He masterfully builds based on who He calls us to be, and keeps in mind the trauma we’ve experienced. He’ll structure our lives to become more about purpose than survival.
In the scriptures found in Proverbs, it talks about wisdom calling out to us. I leave you with this small prayer. I pray that you allow wisdom to guide you in the things of God. I pray you permit wisdom to give knowledge, so that your life is built from the perfect will of God. I pray that you allow wisdom to reconstruct your life according to the plans God has for you. May you be encouraged. May you be filled with hope. May you learn to love your life, not just live your life.
Proverbs 1:20-23 (ESV)
20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street,
in the markets she raises her voice;
21 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
23 If you turn at my reproof,
behold, I will pour out my spirit to you;
I will make my words known to you.
Love, Kevonna 🌻
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