Jun
25
Long Term Investment
Filed Under Devotional
Task scheduling is an important part of good project management. The same tasks can be scheduled in many different ways with dramatically different results. If you schedule all of the longest tasks to be done by the same person, you’ll end the project late with one burnout and a bunch of bored workers. If you schedule the longer tasks late in the project, they will tend to drag out and push the deadlines. The right approach is to schedule the things with the most uncertainty and the longest times first. They need to get started so they can finish on time. This is true when cooking a four course meal, planning a project, or just living your life.
There’s deep theology here:
“Finish your outdoor work
and get your fields ready;
after that, build your house.” Proverbs 24:27
The outdoor work is the work that doesn’t have instant gratification. Planting fields is hard work and there is nothing to show for it for weeks and weeks. But, the fruit it produces can feed many people. Building your house is something you can take advantage of right away. Once it’s done, you can move in, but it is just for you.
However, if you build the house first, it’ll be too late to plant the fields.
Do the work that affects others first. Invest the time in planting seeds and cultivating relationships to see the fruit later. That fruit lasts into Heaven. The work you do on your house (or your looks, your wealth, your power) fades away before we get to Heaven.
Make the long term investment.
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Allen Taylor