What is Stewardship of Time?





Stewardship of Time

With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints… Ephesians 6:18

How can we be good stewards of our time?  Does the scripture reading of Ephesians 6:18 give us a clue?  What does, ‘pray at all times in the Spirit,’ mean?  How can we be ‘alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints…’?

We know that in our lives, in this world that we cannot sit quietly and pray at all times.  We must work.  We must take care of our families and our homes.  We must participate in ministry.  We must do many things.

Maybe praying ‘at all times in the Spirit’ means carrying God with us as we go about our daily activities?  Maybe it means looking for God in all that we do?  Maybe it means not forgetting our Lord when we are out in the world?  Maybe it means asking ourselves if what we are doing is righteous and good in the eyes of God?   

Does that mean we don’t need to go to Mass, set aside time for prayer, pray before meals, spend quality, intentional time with our families, teach our children to pray?  Maybe it means we do both.  Maybe the intentional ways we connect with God, help us carry Him in our hearts at all times.  What do you think?  What can you plan?  What can you do?  Let us ask the saints to pray for us and remember to spend time with God each and every day so that He is with us at all times, wherever and whatever we are doing.