On How Costs Vary

It is continually drummed into our exhausted 21st century minds that time is expensive.

What isn't always clear though, is what currency we should be calculating our gains and losses in.

Also, by extension, which activities rate higher than others in that somewhat vague horological sphere.

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This, then, is where it gets tricky. Because we realise we must factor in some form of knowledge. Without which any notion falls apart. Ergo, what best to do with what we've got after we've spent time earning it?

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Should such a conundrum halt us in our tracks, or should we simply flip that coin? Spend longer thinking about how best to live when we have spent time leaning into and studying what we have already been given?

In other words, the ever-reassuring presence of God and the written wonder of His Word.

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Not forgetting our communion with each other.

As we were not born to live in silos.

Doing life alone is just plain oxymoronic. Come storm and flood, war and pandemic, it is mankind’s togetherness - online or in person – that has contributed the most to its survival.

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So even if it weren't the Sabbath, today would be as good as any to worship, pray, and fellowship; to function as a community of friends, family, brothers and believers.

Let us not be ignorant of the devil’s devices – distracting, dividing and diminishing at will. We get it. It’s his job.

Yet, much more importantly, we must never ever fail to daily learn something new about the greatness and goodness of our God who is Aleph and Tav*, the true fount of knowledge.

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Bliss? Definitely overrated.

It really is all about the infinite joy of knowing our Who, Whom and Why.

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📖 Now the Lord God said, “It is not good (beneficial) for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper [one who balances him—a counterpart who is] suitable and complementary for him.”

Genesis 2:18 AMP (YouVersion)

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📖 This is what the Lord says: Don’t let wise people brag about their wisdom. Don’t let strong people brag about their strength. Don’t let rich people brag about their riches. If they want to brag, they should brag that they understand and know me. They should brag that I, the Lord, act out of love, righteousness, and justice on the earth. This kind of bragging pleases me, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:23‭-‬24 GW‬‬‬ (YouVersion)

*Hebrew for ‘The Beginning and the End’, translated in the Greek as ‘Alpha & Omega’

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