The Clock Ain’t on Our Side
Time slips away. How often do we look at the clock and say, oh no, I’m late.? How often do we wish that we could manage our lives better? But then, who can manage time? Like a great threshing machine, it is mowing down the days of our lives. Time marches on and is not concerned about our plans or desires.
No, we cannot manage time. But we can manage our actions. We can learn to make better use of our energies and activities. The important thing is to prioritize. Decide what matters and don’t waste your life on things that don’t.
I have found that the energy spent trying to impress people is wasted. Entertainment can also be a stealer of life. The hours that are squandered in front of the TV, on video games, or even reading meaningless books are hours that are gone forever. And I know this is true because I often wish that I could have my hours back.
Yet these are not the only time thieves. Often things that are good and important steal our time. Jobs are important. But sometimes a job will rob us of valuable family time. Hobbies and sports often take us away from the more important things and yes, even church can have a detrimental impact on the wise use of time.
But know this, God has a plan for us. We need to seek His will for our lives. Every minute of it. We are not here to please ourselves or others. We are here to glorify God.
Think about this we don’t know the number of our days! Any second now our life here on earth could end. When it does you will answer to God for, “among other things” your use of Time. If He calls you right now, today, would you be ashamed of how you spent Time?
“What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God. I know that whatever God does, It shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, And nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. That which is has already been, And what is to be has already been; And God requires an account of what is past.”
Ecclesiastes 3:9-15 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/ecc.3.10-15.NKJV
Douglas & Deborah Huff
From Down Where the Pavement Ends
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