STEWARD’S OF GOD’S TIME!!!

August 19, 2013

STEWARD’S OF GOD’S TIME!!!

STEWARDSHIP – is an ethic that embodies the responsible planning and management of resources. The concepts of stewardship can be applied to the environment, economics, health, property, information , and theology. But today we will only deal with the Christian and His, or Her role, in what being A STEWARD OF GOD’S TIME REALLY MEANS.

“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.

The human family have scarcely begun to live when they begin to die, and the world’s incessant labor ends in nothingness unless a true knowledge in regard to eternal life is gained. The man who appreciates time as his working day will fit himself for a mansion and for a life that is immortal. It is well that he was born. We are admonished to redeem the time. But time squandered can never be recovered. We cannot call back even one moment.

The only way in which we can redeem our time is by making the most of that which remains, by being co-workers with God in His great plan of redemption. In him who does this, a transformation of character takes place. He becomes a son of God, a member of the royal family, a child of the heavenly King. He is fitted to be the companion of the angels.” (Ellen G. White Christ’s Object Lessons)

Friends! we often complain about never enough time, I wish there were more hours in the day! But our problem is not that we don’t have enough time. Rather, our problem is (1) What must we accomplished within our time frame, that God has given us (2) And as we recognize the urgency in our time, in regards to the final days of this life’s history, what must our passion be, with what time we have left, realizing that time keeps moving (3) And how do we value our time in relationship to Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.

As a steward of His time, when Jesus lived on this earth He was never worried or created such a hectic schedule that it caused a since of panic, He never had a moment of remorse for time lost. He was forever and in all circumstances doing the work of His Father, but was never so driven by His purpose and absorbed by productivity that He forgot about the passion of love, and How He treated everyone, and what His mission was as he approached Calvary.

In His 33 years on this earth as He carried out His earthly ministry, Jesus spent time praying, teaching, helping, healing and interacting daily with men and women from every social, educational, and economic class. So like Christ Their must be A passion for the use of our time and how we share the love of Christ, that impacts a world lost in sin, for a pure and holy kingdom! But we must also never forget that this mandate should be A passion that drives how we spend our time each day.

A passion that controls our mind, body, and most of all our time, and  not our time controlling our passion. Our love for God is absolute when we remain focused and make our time spent in spreading the good news a passion that transcends into an urgency for the amount of times we have left on this earth to live.

It is only through faith, and God’s grace that we can make a right use of our time. There is nothing in us, 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. We know not what each day, hour, or a moment will determine, and never should we begin our day without committing our time to our Lord and Savior.

Psalms 90:12 teaches us “to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Satin is at his best when he can utilize our time for his agenda. But we must all be custodians of the time God has given us, we must refuse to ever waste, squander, or misuse what God has given us to be used for His glory and honor! Any wasted time is selfishness on our part and a transgression of God’s precepts to misuse what precious time we have on this earth.

we  rob from God, when we take our precious time and squander it away on things that are not eternal. Malachi 3:8-9 tells me “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? Jesus was bought for us by His own blood. When we schedule or randomly occupy our time for ourselves, we must ask? what is our motivation if it is not centered on Christ, WE ARE ROBBING GOD? Who or what are we trying to satisfy if it is not Christ and Him Crucified WE ARE ROBBING GOD?

And as we use our time each day do we serve  Christ or Satan and the forces of evil if it is the latter WE ARE ROBBING GOD? for in Matthew 6:24 it tells us “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both…..” John 3:16 tells me  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

John Maxwell summarized for us this powerful lesson on sacrifice when he writes: “Giving is the highest level of living.” Perhaps you have instead heard it said that “to live is to give”. If this is true, and Christ made painfully clear He believes it is, what does it say about the extent to which you or I are really living and using our time? our mission as Christians is “to love God absolutely and love others sacrificially.” Isn’t that what Christ epitomized upon the cross? What His death and pro-offered salvation were given for, that we may live likewise as our focus forever remains STEWARD’S OF GOD’S TIME!!!

And this can only be done if there is a passion of love about how we spend our time. For it has to be an Agape love which is selfless, meaning our time is not ours but Gods. Sacrificial meaning we must sacrifice it all for the master especially our time because He sacrificed it all for us for Paul’s tells us in Romans 5:7-8 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” And unconditional, meaning our only focus should be how we spend our time for God each day. The passion for STEWARD’S OF GOD’S TIMES can only refer to what we do with all that God has entrusted us to. And if we are still among the living our passion for how we spend our time for Christ has to be our number one priority.

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