I am an A-plus, time-urgent personality. Are you? It's not good for your health. But what can you do about it? There's so much pressing on us in America! Somebody has to sweat the small stuff while others are at the parties.

I like what Jesus said: "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."

That speaks volumes, doesn't it? It tells us that when we are serving God there is a specific job to do. When it is finished, it is finished. The task is not open-ended.

I can remember as a public-school teacher what it feels like to never finish the job. No matter how hard you worked, how many papers you brought home, there simply was no way to accomplish all that needed to be done.

Let all the grade-school teachers say "Amen!"

After twenty-five years out of the classroom I still have nightmares about not making progress in all the subjects listed on the report card. What a frustration! Do you have frustrating dreams?

It's not this way with God. God has given us something to accomplish on the earth. We do not have to agonize about souls going to Hell, or the people starving to death in the world, or even the fetuses being aborted in America; unless, of course, God Himself directs us to do something about it.

The Bible commands us to cease from our own dead works and enter the rest of God. The "rest of God" means that God finished everything from the beginning of the world and now is resting. Our task is to enter that rest, not just any old rest but the rest of God. As we do we flow with the flowings of the Godhead.

Jesus told His brothers that their time was always ready but His was scheduled. When you are abiding in Christ your time is scheduled. It is like a dance in which Christ does the leading. You don't have to carry the weight of the world on your back. But you do have to present your body a living sacrifice to the Lord in order to prove His will for your life.

When you do each day what God tells you to do the blood of the starving and mutilated is not on your hands. If you are not seeking God and doing His will, God will hold you accountable for not serving your generation.

Is there enough time to do what you are supposed to do? Yes, there is. God would be stupid to assign you a task and not give you enough time to finish it. Right?

You have something you are supposed to do, no more and no less. There is time enough to finish it. There may not be time enough for you to do all you want to do but there is time enough for you to do all God wants you to do.

Then you're out of here.

You don't die when you're old but when you're ripe, the Russians say.

Who wants to wait until they're rotten?