MY FRIENDS, TIME, TIME AND MORE TIME!!!

Aug 12, 2014

MY FRIENDS, TIME, TIME AND MORE TIME!!!

Friends! Our Day has started, if not, it will start soon. We usually awake with this thought in the back of our minds. I wish I had more time, I’ve got so much to do today! Instead of, how do I regulate my time today that will give God all the praise, glory, and honor, how can I make today all about Him.

Whether at work, school, gym, even at the mall, no matter what occurs in my life today it will be all about God. What a wonderful scenario, one that God seeks from His Children and the way our time should be spent each day. “Life is too solemn to be absorbed in temporal and earthly matters, in a treadmill of care and anxiety for the things that are but an atom in comparison with the things of eternal interest.

Yet God has called us to serve Him in the temporal affairs of life. Diligence in this work is as much a part of true religion as is devotion. The Bible gives no indorsement to idleness. It is the greatest curse that afflicts our world. Time squandered can never be recovered.” (Ellen G. White Christ’s Object Lessons)

As a steward of God’s time, when Jesus lived on this earth He never created such a hectic schedule that it caused Him to lose sight of His goal. He never had a moment of remorse for time lost, because He was forever doing His Father’s will. In addition, He was never so absorbed by productivity that He forgot His mission as he approached Calvary.

My friends what is our passion today, if it is not serving God and as His Chosen what could be more important. Once we recognize that simple “life maintenance” can chip away at our time in such huge blocks, we will see how vital it is that we don’t busy ourselves “in vain” Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gather them.” Ps 39:6 (NKJV)

Psalm 39 gives us some perspective in David’s complaint to God, he said, “You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You” Ps. 39:5 So my friends to an eternal God our time on earth is brief, and God doesn’t want us to waste it because time wasted is the most precious commodities God has give us.

Wealth can’t even come in at a distant second, in least it is used for God’s glory and honor. Each minute is an irretrievable and unredeemable slice of eternity and what our God is trying to prepare us for in the earth made new. There is nothing in us, or of ourselves by which we can influence others for good if we do not realize our helplessness and our need of God’s Holy Spirit to guide us in how we spend our time.

We know not what each day, hour, or a moment will determine, that is why it should be committed to our Lord and Savior. My friends I not only speak to you through my devotionals each day, but also to myself for I, like you “have been sinful since birth,” “….For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.

For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do this I keep on doing…..” Rom 7:14-25 (NIV) Like Paul this is every child of God’s Dilemma, but “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. [even his time because we]  do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my [mind and] body, and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY