DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME
How would you like to spend two years making phone
calls to people who aren't home? Sound
absurd? According to one time management
study, that’s how much time the average person spends trying to return calls to
people who never seem to be available. Not
only that, we spend six months waiting for traffic lights to turn green, and
another eight months reading junk mail. These
striking statistics should motivate us to do personal time-use evaluations.
Once we recognize the fact that simple things in life can chip away at our time
in such huge blocks, we will see how vital it is that we don’t just busy
ourselves “in vain.” (Psalm 39:6)
Psalm 39 offers important perspectives on our time. In David’s conversation with God, he states, “You
have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You.” (Verse
5) David meant that our time on earth is
far less than brief to an eternal God. So God never wants us to waste it. When we do, we throw away one of the most
precious commodities Heaven affords. Each
minute is an irretrievable gift, an unredeemable slice of eternity. Yes, we have to make those phone calls. Yes, we must wait at those traffic lights. But what about the rest of our time? Are we using it to advance the cause of Christ
and to enhance our relationships with Him?
Check
out another time insight by David: “The days of our years are threescore years
and ten [70 years or just 25,550 day]; and if by reason of strength they be
fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut
off, and we fly away. So teach us to
number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” (Psalm
90:10,12)
Time is the Father’s greatest temporal investment in
us. Bottom-line: Is our time well spent? And are we providing our Creator a reasonable
R.O.I. [Return On Investment]?
Prayerfully ponder.
Sisters and brothers, be continually blessed, and
please (above all else) MAKE SURE YOU ARE READY TO MEET OUR SOON COMING KING.
Maranatha!
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