The Great Equalizer

By Chris Sonksen

Time is the great equalizer. No matter who you are, how much money you have, the title you carry or the power you possess, time does not play favorites. Everyone is given the same number of hours in a day. This principle even applied to Jesus when He was on this earth over 2,000 years ago. He was the ultimate leader, the miracle worker and the carrier of hope, but one thing the people of those days had in common with Him was time. How you spend this precious commodity will determine the level of joy and fruit you experience in life. 

If you are a ministry leader—or any leader for that matter—the higher you climb, the greater need you will have to steward your time. How you spend energy and time changes as your level of influence and leadership changes. When you were a child, you spent the hours of your day a certain way. As you become a teenager and then a young adult, you would value your time differently and, as a result, you would invest it differently.

You did not have the luxury of adding hours, so you had to exercise wisdom in how to spend them. It is true when you were growing up, and it is still true today. You can never add hours, you can only trade them. The success you experience in life will always be determined by the trades you are willing to make. 

So, if time is a precious commodity that you can’t simply buy more of, then what is the filter you use when determining how to spend it? This process is highly important and should not be taken lightly. It will play a significant role in the success of your future. Here are two questions to ask yourself that will help you redirect the resource of time and to begin investing it differently.

Who do I need to spend more time with? As your ministry or organization grows, you must narrow down who will get personal time and who will get group time. Personal time is the one-on-one time with you. It is not possible, as you grow, to spend time with everyone so you have to discover the staff or team members that are crucial to continue developing and growing and spend time with them. Group time is for those individuals who are still an important part of the team, but what needs to be done with them and through them can be accomplished in a group setting.

What do I need to spend more time doing? What you did at one level is not the same thing you should be doing at the next level. Every time you continue to move forward and upward, there must be a shift in where you spend your time. It doesn’t mean that what you were doing before no longer matters, it just means that you must trade what you did then for what you need to do now. If you continue to spend time in the same areas year after year, you will unintentionally become the lid to your own success and to the success of the ministry or organization. 

Remember, time is the greater equalizer. Regardless of any status in life, we are all given the same amount in a single day.  The bigger you grow and the bigger the ministry or organization you lead grows, the more crucial your decision on time becomes. Don’t be the cap on your future. Choose wisely who you spend time with and what you spend time doing. It will literally be the one single decision that determines how low you fly or how high you soar!

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