Controlling what you can control (Aligning with the Kingdom) (#014)

When God brought the Children of Israel out slavery, the first thing He told them was this would be “the beginning of months.” That is, they would have an actual calendar— and start walking in time (see Exodus 12:2).

Before this, they had no control of their time. They did whatever they were told, when they were told.

They had no control over their money, either. In fact, the Hebrew slaves eventually had to acquire their mud and straw (the raw materials) required to make the bricks to benefit someone else (see Exodus 5:7,11).

The first concept of freedom, then, was having control over their own time and money.

• Manage your calendar
• Manage your possessions

Many people don’t. They aren’t “in time,” so they feel crunched by time. And they don’t manage their money— it manages them.

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There’s never enough time to do everything that could be done, but there’s always enough time to do what should be done.

We tap into this reality be prioritizing God with the only two things we have authority to do anything with— time and money, the two things the Children of Israel were eventually given as they journeyed into freedom.

1 Corinthians 15:23 speaks to the importance of first fruits. Specifically, we read that “Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.”

He shows us something that’s true of us.

Moreover, Paul reminds us that if the first is holy, then the rest is redeemed (Romans 11:16). We’re holy, then, because Jesus is holy. We’re whole, because He is whole.

But this same concept— about the “firsts”— works in every area of life. Particularly in terms of our time and money.

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