Have you ever done something accurately inaccurate? Now there’s an oxymoron for ya 😉 . Let me expound, for Christmas last year my brother’s girl friend gave him, a really nice Kenneth Cole watch. It’s beee-uti-ful. However, it has one tiny flaw, it beeps every hour (and I mean EVERY) at 8 minutes past the hour, it is accurately inaccurate. In our house every time it beeps someone yells, “It’s eight minutes past something”, we’re easily amused. For some reason when the watched beeped today, I had this thought, “I have lived so much of my life like my brother’s watch…doing the right thing, but at the wrong time”.  The beep on the watch was meant to signify the start of a new hour. However, anyone who does not know about the watch’s fault will inadvertently (after hearing the beep) assume a wrong position on the time. This new journey has been teaching me the importance of doing what I am called to do when I am called to do it. If I wait and push something off till later, I may accomplished the task, but can still miss the goal. The purpose of the watch: Beep on the hour. It’s eight minutes late, The task (beep), accomplished. The goal (on the hour), missed. The hearer, misinformed. If you know the right choice, do it. Don’t wait till later to do what needs to be done now. Don’t be accurately inaccurate. Doing the right thing in the wrong way or the right thing at the wrong time.

“For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge” (Romans 10:2).

So what’s my plan of attack? Accuracy (no eight minutes past the hour for me…)