Dec. 7, 2014
USING OUR TIME WITH THE WISDOM AND “ADMONITION OF THE LORD”
“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. The Bible gives no endorsement to idleness. It is the greatest curse that afflicts our world. 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)
My Friends! As we move closer and closer to the second coming of our Savior, Satan will somehow be at the forefront of prioritizing our TIME in such a subtle, cunning and unsuspecting way that John 3:30 which states “HE MUST INCREASE, BUT I MUST DECREASE” begins to take on a whole new meaning that says, MY TIME MUST INCREASE, AND HIS TIME MUST DECREASE.
My friends I say that because in our fast paced 21st century agenda our relationship with God, sometimes becomes secondary. We complain daily 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, but that we are not allowing God’s Spirit to guide us into accomplishing within our TIME frame, what is more important to God which should be our no. 1 priority.
My friends we must begin to recognize the urgency in God’s agenda, in regards to the closeness of His second coming, and what must our passion be, with what TIME we have left. Remember my friends we only have a short TIME of probation given us on this earth “The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.” Psalms 90:10
If we are God’s Children, and we have allowed Gods Spirit and Word to transform our Character in the likeness of Christ
than our TIME should only be valued in relationship to what God wants done in our lives on this Journey he has placed us on.
And if that is not the criteria in how we value our TIME, than we must re-evaluate how serious we are about our Salvation and eternal life. Jesus as our example never created such a hectic schedule that He lost sight of what His mission was as He approached Calvary, which was doing the work of His Father.
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 “Our Father which art in heaven”, as we spread the good news of the gospel to a world that has lost hope.
Our love for God is absolute when we remain focused and make our TIME spent in spreading the good news of the gospel a passion that transcends into an urgency for the amount of TIME we have left on this earth. 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., and when this happens we rob God by taking His precious TIME and squandering 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?
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!!!
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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