Of course not! A small drawer does not have the capacity to hold 67 pairs of socks. We can draw that conclusion easily and accurately. But what about when we are considering the commodity of time and what we try to fit into that time? The boxes that contain our time – our minutes, our hours and our days – are like small drawers; they have limited capacity. Unlike a drawer overflowing with socks, we do not easily discern the limits of our days and hours and minutes. Yet the limits are real and need to be recognized.

Our time is limited. When we consider our lives as a whole, we know that our lives are limited. Each person will live out a finite number of days. This is reality; and it is sobering. A writer in the book of psalms pens: “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Ps. 90:12) What does it mean to “number our days”? Perhaps it means to appreciate our limits on a daily, hourly kind of basis. Not only are my days limited overall. But each of my days are limited to a certain number of waking hours. And each of those hours are limited to exactly 60 subdivisions that we have labeled as “minutes”. Limits. Limits. Limits. We need to recognize the limits. It is reality. When we accept the fact each of our hours and minutes has their limits, we can ask a very important question: “How will I use my time?” Another way of saying that is, “What will I intentionally put in my small drawers of time?” You cannot fit everything into your limited containers, so which things will be the most important?