‘Your choice of career is the biggest ethical decision you’ll ever make.’ So says 80,000 Hours*. ‘All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us,’ says J.R.R. Tolkien in The Fellowship of the Ring. ‘A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil,’ says Ecclesiastes 2:24.
What are you going to do with your time? It’s a question we can’t avoid. As Christians, we have the benefit of the wealth of Biblical wisdom to help navigate the myriad right answers.
Getting the large stones in the jar first: Ministry priorities
A lecturer was discussing time management with his students. He brought out a large glass jar and placed it on …