Part of my habit (almost) everyday is to read some tech news on websites, from gadget, technology tools to increase productivity, softwares, and some geeky stuff. Last week i found this interesting post from one of my favorites tech news website called “lifehacker”. The post has its title “You can do anything but not everything” with an interesting logo as above as well. You can read the whole post (it is very short btw) on this link here.
In short that quotation is from David Allen, the author of a book called “Getting things done” which speaks about productivity. This then becomes a method or a system which is also known with the same title name or also referred to simply as GTD. I myself haven’t read the book, but i was “stucked” for a while when reading the comments from “lifehacker” website which says:
“...Getting Things Done productivity system, is a reminder that we have to remember what’s important to do rather than trying to do it all.
You can do whatever you want, but the time you have for whatever you want is limited. This is why prioritising your time is so important. It’s important to figure out what’s most important to you and what can wait. That can be a tough choice, but it’s the line between getting things done and burnout.”
Wow! This is what comes out of my head straight after reading those lines: “Isn’t that also a reminder for us, that we call ourselves believer of Jesus Christ, Christians?“ David Allen may talk about productivity at work, or prioritising our time so that we could achieve our best, or what’s most important thing in the anthropocentric view, but the same message could also remind us Christian, that our time is also limited, that we are a limited being. It also reminds us of what is our priority in life.
The verse of this blogs was taken from James 4:14 which says “For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth (KJV)” or “What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. (ESV)” The verse asked us to consider the fragility of human life, and the fact that we are able to do things, and we live is because of the permission that God has given. If we look the whole passage, we may understand that the verse does not meant to discourage us from planning, but instead it reminds us not to be arrogance for our lives, as what our lives is not ours, and that we are very fragile. The verses reminds us that we are in total dependence of the sovereign God, that gives us life, and for us Christian, it is more than that: Our life is not just the life itself, but God has give us redemption. God has given his very own life through the death of His Son, instead of our very own because of our sin.
Let’s go back again with the quote from David Allen above; what is our priority? the quote above, i hope could be a reminder for us (as it is for me) to always put a constant awareness of our sovereign God, and so don’t underestimate our own limitation as we do not know what will happen tomorrow. Once again, We human really can do anything we like, but when our time is up.. we can't do anything anymore.. so it's about PRIORITY. I guess we should seek something with eternity value: things that pleases Him.
“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” - Matthew 6:33 (ESV)
~ Paul Hartono
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