Big Rocks First: How Seeking Jesus Reorders Everything Else
Busy Is Not the Same as Fruitful Have you ever kept every plate in your life going at once while none of them actually mattered? I did that for years, and I called it ministry. I want to walk you through the day I finally got quiet with God and He showed me why frantic and faithful are not the same thing. There is a simple illustration that will absolutely wreck your calendar if you let it. It is the big rocks theory. Picture a jar that represents your time. You put the big rocks in first, then the smaller rocks, then the pebbles, then the sand. But if you fill that jar with sand and pebbles first, the big rocks will never fit. You can shake it, press on it, cram and squeeze all you want, but those big rocks are staying on the counter. My Confession: A Life of Keeping Things Spinning I have to tell on myself. When I was in elementary school, a magician came to an assembly with a stack of plates and a handful of skinny sticks. He got one plate spinning, then another, then a third, until...