10/15/2026
Scenario: You’re 30 minutes late to the Dr. because you were 20 minutes late leaving the bank, because you were 10 minutes late dropping off the kids, because the car ran out of gas two blocks from the station, all because you didn’t have time to fill up the night before.
That’s life with no margin.
Margin is the space between your load and your limit. It’s the breathing room between what you’re carrying and what you’re capable of carrying; it's where you find reserve energy, clear thinking, and peace.
Is our schedule so full of "good" things we have on our calendar to do every day that there is no block of time committed to being quiet with God? Time to offer praise to the Creator, time to read His Word, time to allow the Holy Spirit to breathe into us His power?
Luke 5:16 ESV
"But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray."
Matthew 14:23
"...he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,"
Mark 1:35
"And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed & went out to a desolate place, & there he prayed."