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14remember they had Pac Man and Asteroids. Now they can do everything. Before long and with a little skill I could play 45 minutes to an hour for a quarter. I would catch myself, silly as it sounds, on my lunch hour going over and seeing if I could beat the other scores. On the way home from work, I'd just stop by and play a little game. Then all of a sudden it dawned on me, I was spending three to four hours a day on NOTHING. NOTHING. Today you have the computer games. Now folks, a little later on, we're going to talk about scheduling. Don't misunderstand%u2014every life needs some recreation. Every life needs what I call some chill time, but don't let the tail wag the dog. Life is far too important to waste it on worthless books, magazines, TV or worthless games%u2014that's almost redundant, isn't it?%u2014worthless games.Here's an activity you need to do. Chart how you spend your day for the next seven days. Now you should be doing that anyway. But do it this week. Then lay it along side your values and ask yourself if you're living out what's really important to you. As you look at your activities are there some things that you wish you hadn't done? Are there some things you wish you had just left undone and filled the time with something more valuable. In Philippians 3:8, Paul said, \gain in knowing Christ.\was shaped around what his core values were. I'm not saying you will be a Paul, God made all of us differently. But if we're going to live the maximum life, God wants us to assess what's important and to bail out the unimportant and to concentrate on the eternal%u2014concentrate on what really lasts.There was a book that came out a few years ago by Tony Campolla called, Who Switched the Price Tag?In preparing for that book, Campolla asked a large number of 90 year olds, \you could go back and live your life again, what would you do differently that you didn't do last time?\in things that would outlast me.%u201d Isn't that a great answer? I would invest more of my time in things that I know would endure.When you write out your core values this week and analyze them, close that analysis with this question: How long is this value going to last? If one of your values is pleasure, do you know what your honest answer will be%u2014a few seconds%u2014because that is all pleasure is designed for. It's like cotton candy%u2014POOF%u2014it's gone. It will last a few seconds and it's over. If one of your values is possessions, I'll tell you how long it will last, it will last until it rots, tears up, breaks, or gets stolen. If your valueis power, position or authority, how long is it going to last? It is either going to last until somebody smarter, brighter or faster comes along and takes it away from you, or until you die. That's how long it's going to last. But, what does last? That's what the whole Bible is about. It's about what really lasts.\ focus not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are unseen. For that which is seen is temporary, and what is unseen is eternal.\things there. But Jesus said, \fair synonym for the kingdom of God is His value system, letting Him be the Lord of our