And God said, "Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years."

Genesis 1,14
God is not only Creator of earth and light, but also Creator of powers such as magnetic and electric fields, gravity, and also time. Our cosmos is so complex, with one thing influencing another, that no super computer could have been able to create it;- perhaps SimCity or other simplistic computer games. It takes a Genius Creator. He is the one who has imagined things such as time.
God the Creator has specific ideas of how we should handle time. He wants us to work six days and rest on the seventh. He thinks of everything. Marvelous! The one who goes against these regulations, as dictated by God, pays through health and other issues.
When God created time, He made the day 24 hours long, dividing it into day and night. The day is for work, the night for rest. There is time for nourishment, time for sowing, time for harvesting. There is summer and winter. He who exaggerates work in order to make career gains, or deems himself irreplaceable, will suffer the consequences.
When God created time, the devil was angered. So he created haste (because he can only copy, not create). God wants to warn us not to do anything in haste. He gives us enough time for everything. When we realise that haste and speed want to take hold of us, let us take a minute and a breath, and focus on our Lord. What is His will? Is it really that bad if I don’t finish on time? And we can ask for His help, so that we can finish on time, without haste, speed and stress.
Rest is very important to the Lord. Thus we read in Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall lack nothing (not even time). He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul…
We need to reassess our attitudes toward free time and Sundays. I’m afraid there is much we are doing wrong.
The Lord urges us to use our time wisely. Time runs like sand in the hourglass. He does not want us, at the end, to say: if only… He wants us to use our lives and our time with Him in a meaningful way, so that, one day in Heaven, we are able to say: it was worth it.
If we, like so many others, experience difficulties with time and time management (haste, hectic, stress, being-too-late, pointless procrastination, etc), let us lay the problem before the Lord for a couple of days, weeks, even months, and ask Him how and what we can change for Him to find delight in our lives. He loves to help.
Thank You for the time You have given me! Forgive where I procrastinate or land in stress and hectic. I want to listen to You, and do Your will. Then my life will finally be relaxed.
Bible study for today: 1. John 5,1-21