Brother Musician Podcast
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Brother Musician Podcast
Rethinking Our Relationship With Time
Time—the one resource we can never get back. Have you ever considered that your punctuality is actually a spiritual matter? This powerful message challenges us to examine the disconnect between our words and actions when it comes to time management.
The speaker delivers a passionate wake-up call about the double standard many of us live by: strictly adhering to punctuality for work and school while casually arriving late for spiritual commitments. "If you can't be on time for God, I'm dead in the water if I ask you to do something," the speaker declares, highlighting how our time management reveals our true priorities.
Perhaps the most profound moment comes in considering time's ultimate value. "If you take a minute from me and I'm on my deathbed, I would pay you a million dollars for that minute," the speaker reflects. This perspective transforms punctuality from a mere courtesy into a profound spiritual practice—how we steward our most precious resource and honor others by respecting theirs.
The message isn't just convicting; it's practical. Being ready at 7:00 means arriving well before 7:00 to handle setup, bathroom breaks, and preparation. It's about planning ahead rather than expecting grace for poor time management. The examples of band members arriving early sets the standard—excellence in preparation becoming its own act of worship.
How might your life change if you approached every commitment with the understanding that time is sacred? Listen to this message, then examine your own punctuality habits. They might be telling you more about your spiritual priorities than you realize.
For sure, like this late stuff, like we used to, we used to. This is ridiculous. I'm going to be honest. This is actually ridiculous For us to and we try to, we're trying to please God, right, but we don't come to Him later, like it's almost like we don't look at rehearsal as worship and it is, it's a form. But we used to do an early service and the service started at 8. They had to be there at 6.30. The band had to be there at 6.30. So if you notice even the band here, they're early. They're early Before you can get here. You're going to see them.
Speaker 1:That's always been a standard for me. If you can't be on time for God, I'm dead in the water if I ask you to do something. So I am a stickler about time because it's important, that's what we have, that's all we have. Most of all, you think we have this time. So if you take a minute from me, a minute from me and I'm on my deathbed, I would pay you a million dollars for that minute. I would. I'm about to die and you can tell me. You tell me, I only got one more minute. I had one minute. I would pay whatever it took to get that minute of life. So when we waste each other's time, we don't understand the value of that. It's so important and it speaks to who you are, because we'll be on time for work. We ain't gonna be there for work.
Speaker 1:I teach, I teach. My class has to start at whatever and we want people absent or late in the teaching. We're always talking to the teachers, right, we want them in whatever. They get whatever. If you come to my class late, you know you Get out whatever they get whatever. If you come to my class late, you know you go get out, go back out. Right, and I know y'all say what attitude when you're from jamaica, right, it's with more attitude. Get out ladies, right, but look how we have. We give ourselves all this grace. We teach. We teach grace to ourselves.
Speaker 1:But when rehearsal starts at seven, when rehearsal starts at seven, you gotta, we need to be ready at seven. We need to be right here at 7. We need to be, I need to be set up at 7. That's why I tell Clay I need to get into church by 6 or 15. I know I'm killing him because I'm working. I'm working, but I've been working, clay, all week. Clay, we need to get to the church by 8 o'clock Today because we didn't know the package was going to come between 8 and 1030. So we didn't know. So we had to be out here at that time and that's probably work when I used to.
Speaker 1:Clay don't mind working, but Clay got to get his time together. If I get Clay's time together, clay's going to be perfect for you. He's going to be perfect. No, he's just going to be perfect, period. He's a hard worker already, for sure, but just the time part. If we get that, that's another part of worship that we gotta get. We gotta get that. Not 6.58, not 6.57, not 6.59, not 7 o'clock. You gotta give your time to get your microphone, use the bathroom. Whatever you need to do, you gotta give yourself time to do that. If I need to move, I'd rather move to Riverside, back to 730. Yes, I would rather not. No, you teach, you teach school. Why would 730 be better for you?