The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast) - 3 Decisions that Will Change Your Life

Episode Date: November 1, 2019

Drawing from St. Paul, James, and Proverbs, Jeff brings up three decisions that will change your life for the better. First, value your time as a gift from God. Second, invest in people, not things. Third, seek wisdom, not trivia. These three changes will have a ripple effect on your life, and help you orient yourself towards God. Got a comment or question for Jeff? Email us at [e-mail] You can get today's shownotes delivered stright to your inbox! Just text JEFFCAVINS to 33-777

You're listening to the Jeff Kavan Show, episode 139, three decisions that will change your life. Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff Kaven show. And welcome to the show today. Yes, we do. We do think about the things that will change our life, and we spend a lot of time looking for that right answer, that right book, that right podcast, that right television show, whatever it might be, that might just give us the things that will really unlock our lives. And of course, there's many, many things that we can talk about. And if you go and look at the back catalog here of the show, you'll see we talk about a lot of interesting things and a lot of things that will change your. life. Today, I want to talk about three, three decisions that will change your life radically. So if you're looking for that change in your life and you're asking God to show you what to do, one, two,

or three of these things today just might be the adjustment that you are looking for. They just might be that change that would bring about, you know, really what you're what you're desiring in your heart, whether it's in your own personal life, your family, at work, relationships, whatever it might be. I'm going to be giving some scriptures on the show today. Let me just tell you right off the bat, if you want the show notes for all the shows that come up automatically, it's real easy to do now. You don't even have to send an email to me. All you have to do to automatically join the show note list is text, my name in one word, Jeff Kavins. One word, Jeff Kavins.

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because the final payments are going to be due in about a month or so, and we want to make sure that you get on that young adult trip to the Holy Land with us. All right, three decisions that will change your life. Now, I'm going to go through these three decisions, and I want you to know that these are things that I have in my own life really thought about. I mean, there's a lot of things I could come up with, but at this time, there are three decisions that in my life are very, very, very, critical. So I figure if these are three things that I know I need to focus on, they just

might be the three things that will change your life. And their attitude adjustments, they're not the easiest things in the world. It's not a matter of, you know, waking up tomorrow and saying, okay, great. Now I've implemented that decision in my life. It's something that you're going to have to work at, something that you're going to have to modify your schedule. Certainly, you're going to modify your attitude. You're going to get an attitude adjustment. If you're going to be successful in these areas. But I just want to say to you, it takes a little bit of work. So number one, the number one, these are not in any specific order, but the number one decision is the decision to think of time as a treasure and very valuable. This is a decision and a

modification in our thinking that can yield tremendous fruit in our lives. I'm afraid that many of us in our lives these days do waste a lot of time. We really do. You know, time in our culture is something to waste. Time is something to kill. Time is something for trivia to fill in our lives. And I think that we waste way too much time. And one of the big complaints that many of us have when asked, well, have you read the Bible lately? And people will say, well, I don't have what? I don't have enough time. And that's what people typically will say is that I haven't the time to do that. Or have you spent the time with your children? Well, I don't have time. But when you really look at what we spend our lives on, how we invest our time, or invest it poorly, I should say,

but we find that there's a lot of trivial things in our life that we're giving ourselves over to. and a lot of ways of wasting time and filling time where we're sitting at doctor's appointments or drop, you know, waiting to pick up the kids at school and we waste that time. We get up in the morning and we give ourselves to things that are really inconsequential and really don't make that big of a difference. But if we're going to make a decision to think of time as a treasure, it means that we really have to be willing to invest and willing to grasp to go after that charge. chunk of time in the morning, whether it's 20 minutes or a half an hour, or the 15, 20 minutes

before the kids come home from school, we're going to make the most of it, right? We're going to make the most of it. Now, it's kind of interesting because we have 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but if we complain to God and say, well, I don't have enough time to do this or that, give me more time, Lord. And the Lord says, okay, right now you've got 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How about if I give you 36 hours a day and we'll do eight days in a week? How about if we do that? Well, you know what the result's going to be, don't you? It's going to be a repeat unless we make a decision to think of time as a treasure and very, very valuable. You know, time is the only thing that we have, really, that is the currency that allows us to

make decisions that are eternal, eternal decisions. And Ecclesiastes 311, I'll put in the show notes, God says, he has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's mind. Isn't that something? So you carry within you this sense of eternity. You know, you have eternity in your mind. You have eternity in your heart, and he has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's mind. So there's two things there. One is, is the temporal time here, and he gives us everything beautiful in its time. There's a time for everything in our lives if we notice it and jump on it. But this is what really makes me think, and I've been thinking about this in the last few days, that he puts eternity into our mind, into our heart. We are always aware of our eternal life, that we are eternal beings. And if we are eternal beings. We must have an eternal perspective. And if we're going to have an eternal perspective, that means that the finite time that we have here on Earth, the 24 hours, seven times a week,

has to be looked at differently if we really are eternal beings. Now, if I told you, you're going to live for eternity. And you go, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that. I know I'm going to live for eternity. And I say, oh, yeah, I know you know that. And I know I know that. And I know I know that. So if that's the truth, and you only have one set of 50 years, 60, 70, 80, 90 years, what are you going to do with it? Because what you do here on earth has eternal perspective. So the decision to think of time as a treasure and very valuable is something that a mature Christian, an activated disciple, would carry.

So time's not something that we're going to waste. Now, outside, I ran into something. Let me tell you this. In fact, you know what? Let me look here for a second. I'm going to put this in the show notes. I am going to put this in the show notes. I just got back from Poland just a few weeks ago, brought some just lovely people over there, and we had a tremendous pilgrimage. In Vadavizi, the hometown of Pope John Paul II, or should I say, St. John Paul II, St. John Paul II, in his childhood home, and when you sit, his childhood home is so modest. There's a living room, a small living room, there's a bedroom, and then a kitchen. The bedroom separates the living room in the kitchen, and the kitchen is quite small and has a little table at the window. Outside the window of

Pope John Paul II's house is an amazing picture. I'm going to put that picture in the show notes. It's a picture that I took sitting there in the kitchen of St. John Paul II's Child home. So I'm going to show you that picture. And on that picture, that picture, by the way, is on the side of the church he grew up in. It's about literally 25 feet from his kitchen bedroom and family room. Oh, man, that was powerful. But outside of St. John Paul II's house, on the side of the church, there is a picture, and the picture says, time flies, eternity waits. time flies eternity waits what a beautiful picture what a beautiful thought and isn't it true time flies and eternity waits and our lives look like that don't they time flies by it it just seems like

yesterday i was in high school and here it's been it's been many many years and it just time flew by but eternity waits what i do in this this this this time period where time moves fast. And it's moving faster the older I get. Eternity waits. Everything I do is in relationship to eternity. I'm going to put that picture of that image in the show notes, and it's taken right from where he had breakfast every morning. You're going to love it. It's worth the, it's waiting gold, I was going to say. Hey, another thought on this. Ephesians 515. Paul says, look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the best use of the time.

because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. If you want to make that decision to readjust your thinking, the decision to think of time as a treasure and very valuable, then you need to know what to do with it. You need to make the most of every opportunity, or as one translation says, redeem the time, buy back this opportunity. How do you do that? How do you make the most of every opportunity? You understand what the will of the Lord is. And when you think of what you'd like to achieve in your walk as a Christian, you typically come up with things like, I want to learn the Bible. I want to study the faith in the catechism of the Catholic Church. I'd like to volunteer for a mission trip. I'd like to have more

time for prayer. I want to send my kids to a great Catholic summer camp. You come up with all these these ideas, well, make a decision to think of time as a treasure. Go after that. Redeem the time. Know what the will of the Lord is. Because when you know what the will of the Lord is, you're focused. Maybe your focus is on one of these things that fits right into the will of the Lord for your life and your family. Make the decision to think of time as a treasure. You know, you can do this in a number of different ways, like the first hour of the day. Don't look at your phone. Don't look at your computer. Spend time with God. Limit your social media and feeling obligated to watch what your DVR has recorded. Guard chunks of time for specific tasks or relationships. Say, I'm going to guard from 7 to 8 to night

to be with my wife. From 8 to 9 before the kids go to bed, I'm going to give that time to them. you see make the decision to think of time as a treasure nothing really is valuable as it is as valuable as your time and you can get your money back but you cannot get your time back number two well i'm going to save it for you because we're going to take a break and when we come back we're going to look at number two and i think you're going to like it it's another decision that will change your life so when we come back. We'll do number two and number three. You're listening to the Jeff Kaven show. Do you find it difficult to enter into the mysteries of the rosary? What about personally applying

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Thank you for coming back. We have two more decisions. Two more decisions that will change your life. And that's the name of the show. Three decisions that will change your life before the break. Decision to, the decision to think of time is a treasure and very valuable. Number two, a decision to invest in people, not things. The decision to invest in people and not things. That will change your life. I have always been amazed at talking to people who are older. When I say older, I'm talking about 80 and up, and interviewing them and asking questions about life. Almost 100% of the people that I have spoken to that are elderly have said that if they had life to do it over again, they would invest in people and not things. They wouldn't give their time and their precious energy and their finances to things, but they would give their time and their energy and their finances to people.

This is a decision, and this is an adjustment in our lives that does take a lot of rolling up your sleeves and saying, I'm going to do things differently, right? I'm going to do things differently. Rather than investing in extra property or investing in, you know, trying to get that better car or that boat or whatever it might be, the decision to invest in people, and you could modify that a little bit if you wanted to. You could say investing in people slash experiences with people, you're going to yield a lot more fruit in your life. It's going to change your life. And there's a number of beings, I'll say, because God is one of them, that you can invest in.

For example, God. Have you ever thought of the decision to invest in God? It's like investing your money in the stock market. you're hoping for some kind of growth, some kind of yield, some kind of dividend, right? And you might save it for a rainy day or for retirement, but there's no greater investment in the world than investing in God. And we invest in God by reading his word, by prayer, by engaging in the sacraments. We invest in God in meditation, Lexio de Vina in the morning, the examined prayer in the afternoon. So the decision to invest in God, not things, is very, very good. Investing in people, not things. That would involve your family. So not only do we invest in God, but we invest in our family. How much of each day is carved out for your family?

Now, we talked just previously about investing or thinking of time differently. It's not something that we waste, but it's a treasure. And that time is a treasure, but it's what we do at that time, isn't it? And if you're investing in your family, it means that it's premeditated. You are intentional about spending that time with your children. At the time of this particular podcast, I can tell you what I'm doing right after this podcast. I'm going to be going and visiting with my grandchildren. And after that, I am visiting with someone who is in a hospital and struggling with addiction. And after that, I'm going to invest in my daughter and she is singing at a place in Minneapolis and I'm going to go with my wife and we're going to watch her and spend some time with her. So from right after I'm done with this podcast with you, which should be around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, all the way till 9 or 10 tonight, I know the three different people I'm going to be investing in, or four or five people I'm going to be investing in. And that's family. That's family. I'm doing that. Now, there's a lot of other things I could do, right? I got hobbies and television, you know. By the way, Houston, I'm so sorry. Boy, you were really disappointed. point in the World Series. I know. That was yesterday. I felt bad about that for you. But Washington, I know you're real happy. That's the first time in years that you have won the world championship.

You haven't won it since your Washington senators moved to Minnesota and became the Minnesota twins. I just had to add that in there. So a decision to invest in people, we got God, we got family, friends. You know, the happiest people in the world are the people who have close friends, but close friends don't happen by accident. Close friendships are developed when we decide to invest in them and to give the time to them. And people who are successful, people who yield fruit in their lives, people who make great disciples of the Lord, those are the people who decide to invest in friendships. And then people that the Lord has put in your path, in the area of evangelization.

What about that? A decision to invest in the people that you just meet. throughout the day. Maybe you meet someone standing in a line at the coffee shop and you say, you get to talking to them. You exchange business cards or whatever it might be. And you say, oh, it'd be nice to talk to you later. Well, pay attention to those because those relationships can change your life. And your life can change their life. And so rather than investing in things, invest in those people that come across you on the path. Number three, this one is really, really important. And I would say that it's something that many of us don't even think about. We don't even think about it very much. And that is this. The first one, of course, is the first one is the decision to think of time as a treasure and very valuable. The second, the decision to invest in people, not things. And the third, a decision to seek wisdom, not trivia. Wow. The decision.

decision to seek wisdom and not trivia will change your life. And it'll change it in a radical way. I still remember, and perhaps I've mentioned this on previous shows, something that a priest told me one time, he said, in your time, whether it's reading or whatever it might be, devotions, go deep, not wide. Now, there's nothing wrong with going wide, right? I mean, there's a lot of times we want to go and learn a lot about a lot of different things within a topic. But generally speaking, if we're going to have a life-changing experience, if we're going to yield fruit, if we're going to be proficient in the area of our spiritual exercises and spiritual growth, go deep, not wide.

I've said this about the saints, for example, and developing your own posse, those that you walk with throughout the day, the various saints. You don't want to go wide. You want to go deep, so you choose four or five. six saints, maybe seven, and you go deep. You learn all you can about them. Well, as I'm talking about this topic, wisdom, the decision to seek wisdom is the decision to go deep, not why. Don't learn a lot about, you know, don't learn a little about a lot of things, but learn a lot about wisdom. James says in chapter 1 versus 5 through 8, it'll be in the notes, ask for wisdom. How do you get

wisdom? Number one, you ask for it. You ask for it. Seek it. Make a decision to seek it. You start by asking it. How do you do that? Well, it's not very hard, not very complex. It's incredibly profound when you hear me do it. And that is, here, Lord, give me wisdom to be a father. Give me wisdom to be a husband. Give me wisdom to be a colleague at work. And James says in chapter one, he says, starting in verse five, if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God. who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him. So number one is that we must ask for wisdom. And this is such an elementary thing that, in fact, it seems so easy that we think, well, what good is it going to do just to ask? Well, it does a lot of good if you realize who you're asking. You're asking God. You're asking Jesus incarnate wisdom. The wisdom of God. You're asking him to give you direction. Maybe you have some knowledge in your life, but you need wisdom. That's the practical application of knowledge. Without applying the information,

it remains just information. You need wisdom. God show me how to navigate with the situation that I'm facing. To those who apply the information of the sages, it's wisdom. And the fruit of Wisdom comes by doing what the doing, for example, Proverbs or any truth in Scripture. James goes on and says in chapter 3 in verse 13, he kind of backs this up. He says, who is wise? Let him show by his good deeds in the gentleness of wisdom.

You wise? Show me. Wisdom is played out in action. And we can ask God for that wisdom. But we have to have a mindset, a mindset that says, I have made a decision to seek wisdom and not trivia, and we are living in a culture today where trivia rules. Trivia is entertainment. Trivia is conversation. Trivia is the matter at water coolers. Did you see that video that came out yesterday? I mean, that squirrel on rollers' gates.

I'll give me a break. This is not what our life is about. Decision to seek wisdom, not trivia. The Bible tells us that instruction is valuable, wisdom is a treasure, and wisdom offers protection. Wisdom brings success and honor when applied. It is strength. It is strength. So why should we ask for wisdom? Well, the reason is we are dependent upon God. We're independent by nature, but we're dependent upon God in reality, and we cannot solve all of our problems by ourselves. We need we need help. So, and I love this one too, Proverbs 4-7, the beginning of wisdom. What do you think the beginning of wisdom is? If we're going to make a decision to seek wisdom and not trivia as a means of, you know, experiencing a change life, Proverbs 4-7 says, the beginning of wisdom is get

wisdom. Start accumulating wisdom, right? Start accumulating it. Now, all wisdom is his, in Jesus Christ. We know that. And Jesus has given the keys to the kingdom to Peter. The church is the pillar in support of truth. So within this marvelous church, we have so many ways of obtaining wisdom. Let me give them to you real quickly here. Maybe we should do a whole show on these at some point, but at least let me give them to you now, and you'll get them in the show notes as well. Number one, how do you get wisdom? How do you seek wisdom? If you've made that decision to seek wisdom, rather than trivia. Number one, the Word of God. The Word of God. Now, the scriptures, the written word of God, is something that is available to all of us very readily. It's right there in front of you.

You probably have a Bible in your home. And I'm grabbing my starting to become well-worn-out, new Great Adventure Bible. I've got it right here. And I love it. And if you need a Bible, seek out the great adventure Bible. This thing is gorgeous, feels good. It has the Bible timeline chart in it. We show you how to read the Bible as a narrative, as a complete story. It's gold. The catechism of the Catholic Church says about Scripture, even though, about the Old Testament, specifically, even though they contain matters imperfect and provisional, the books of the Bible, the books of the Old Testament bear witness to the whole divine pedagogy of God's saving love. love. These writings are a storehouse of sublime teaching on God and of sound wisdom on human life,

as well as a wonderful treasury of prayers in them, too. The mystery of our salvation is present in a hidden way. Paul wrote to the Colossians, and he said in Colossians 1.9, and so from the day we heard it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom in understanding. So you see, the scriptures talk about even praying that others will be filled with all spiritual wisdom. He wrote to the Ephesians in chapter one, and he said, He has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of this will according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan. Isn't that great? I love that. So number one is scripture, go after scripture, and make it a point to get to know.

know it. Now, I don't know of any other source that is as effective in learning God's amazing plan as the Great Adventure Study Bible that we have. Number two, how do we begin to make this decision to seek wisdom rather than trivia? Doing God's word. The Sabbath is at the heart of Israel's law. To keep the commandments is to correspond to the wisdom and the will of God has expressed in his work of creation, the Catechism says. So keeping God's word is corresponding to wisdom, to wisdom. Here's the third one, the Catechism. It's a systematic and organic presentation of God's plan of sheer goodness. Even the way that it is organized, it says something about wise living. There are four pillars, and the first pillar is the creed. That's the story in

miniature. That's the story of salvation history in miniature. Number two, the second pillar is sacraments and liturgy. That's how you get into God's amazing plan of shared goodness filled with wisdom. And number three is life in Christ. That's your personal script. That's what you live in this plan of sheer goodness. It's wise living, living the life of Christ. And prayer? Prayer is also a very, very important point. That is kind of the spice for all of life. Here's a fourth way. Get into encyclicals and church documents. Great wisdom for everyday living. I'll give you an example. Familiaris consortio. Pope John Paul II. It's on the family. Tremendous wisdom. Tremendous wisdom. Salvitici Dolores, his document on the meaning of human suffering. Tremendous

wisdom. Just some ideas. Number five, listening to the elderly and wise people. In other words, read the saints. They have made this journey. They are successful. Listen to them. And number six, I kind of hinted about this a little bit earlier. Don't read a lot, read well. Don't read a lot, read well. Don't watch a lot of TV, watch well. And go deep. Number seven, prayer. Spend time with Jesus. Proverbs 2.6, it is, it is the Lord who gives wisdom, and from him comes knowledge and understanding. Oh, I like that. And number eight, recognize our dependence upon God as the source of wisdom. Recognize God as the source of wisdom. I like that. And then number nine, keep a journal.

of practical wisdom. This is something that I've encouraged people to do for a long time now is get a Moleskine notebook, get a notebook that you enjoy, and begin to accumulate wisdom, perhaps even having five pages dedicated to marriage, five pages dedicated to children, five pages dedicated to time, to work, to relationships, to friendships, you name it, you give me some ideas, but divide up that Moleskin by, by, by, by, by, categories of thought, and then begin to accumulate wisdom. Maybe it's something you read in a book. Maybe it was a scripture. Maybe it's a quote of John Paul II or Pope Benedict the 16th or Pope Francis. Maybe you heard something and you go, wow, that's good. Stick it in your journal of practical wisdom.

Start a journal of practical wisdom. Well, we packed a lot into this one, didn't we? talking about three decisions that will change your life, the decision to think of time as a treasure and very valuable, and the decision to invest in people and not things, and the decision to seek wisdom, not trivia. Those are three things that if you make those adjustments in your life, you're really going to see some real change. But again, you've got to do it. And you do it by look in yourself in the mirror and saying, Jeff, or your name, I'm making a decision today to think of time as a treasure and very valuable. And maybe you want to take these one at a time, but take a week and every day write it down on a three-by-five note card. I've got my stack

right here, right there. You hear it? That is a stack of note cards, and I write these types of things down on there, and I put it in my pocket that this week I am not going to to waste time. I'm going to make a decision to think of time as a treasure and something that I can make the most of. And you begin to work on that. Well, it's been good to be with you once again this week. Just another note. If you want the show notes, remember, to text my name, Jeff Kavens, one word, Jeff Kavins, to 33777. That's the number that you text to, 33777. And you'll be on the list for all the show notes in perpetuity. Big way of saying today, tomorrow, and the rest of the year, and beyond that. So, again, if you are interested in going to Israel with me in January,

go to my website. If you want to go with Father Mike Schmitz and myself in June to the Holy Land, you can sign up at jeffcavens.com. You get all the information, but time, time is awaiting here. I know eternity is too, but time is of the essence on this. Jump on it. Don't waste time. Come with us on these great pilgrimages to the Holy Lamb. Well, pray for me also. I'm coming up on my schedule. I'll be in St. Anthony of Padua, and that's going to be in Woodlands outside of Houston. And that is coming up very soon, actually. As I look at my calendar here, that's coming up on the 15th and 16th of November, 15th and 16th of November, and I'm going to be at a huge conference in Oklahoma City on Saturday,

December 7th, and I'm going to be talking about activated disciples there. I want to pray for you. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Lord, we thank you, we love you, and we pray, Lord, that you would help us to make these key decisions about time, about people, and about wisdom. That we would seek you, and we would bear for. fruit in all these areas. But help us, Lord, help us to make the decision and a good decision followed up by action. We pray this in your name. Amen. Name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, my friend, I love you, and I'm praying for you, and would ask you to continue to pray for me and my wife and my three daughters, son-in-law, three grandchildren. Thank you so much. God bless you.

Thank you.