How much can you do in an hour?

Finally I am away from everything. Or am I? I am certainly away from my office not thinking too much of the work I have to do. This is my day off, after all.

Here I am sitting at Starbucks drinking a juice waiting for Rebekah to finish her piano lesson thinking about tomorrow. Then, realizing that I will not be at my office tomorrow because I will be at a all-day meeting in Toronto I have begun frantically sending e-mails away to cover the work I should be doing tomorrow.

What’s interesting is that in the last twenty minutes, I have done more than enough work to cover one-half of tomorrow morning’s work. I finished and sent a report to a committee noting that I will not be attending, sent numerous e-mails to help others make decisions, and now I am writing a blog.

As I am writing, I am constantly checking three e-mail accounts, messaging through Facebook with those whom we have not had contact for a while.

So, how much can one do in an hour? I am finding that before I finish this expensive Starbuck juice, I will have done most of my work for tomorrow. The amount of work that can be done in an hour depends entirely on my ability to focus. I am sure that you are not different. That is, if you make your mind up to focus and do what you have to do, you will accomplish much.

It would not be that much a stretch for me to say that even spiritually if one focuses and works, much would be done in figuring out what God would want us to do. It is just that we often do not think about doing spiritual work with such single minded focus.

I often thought about how much Jesus could have done in his three year ministry. Three years used to sound so short a period for him to save the whole world. Now, it does not seem so far fetched. If you can do so much in an hour, imagine how much you can do in three years if you focus all your mind, soul and ability. Now imagine what God in Christ accomplished in three years when God focused all of God-self in Christ!

The most amazing thing is that God did all that in Christ because God loves you so dearly.