Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “A life that matters”
Our Bible verse for today: “For my days vanish like smoke.” Psalm 102:3 (NIV)
Our thought for today: “We must make the best use of our time.”
One of my all-time favorite quotes about the proper use of time comes from Benjamin Franklin. He once posed the challenging question: “Do you love life? Then value your time, because time is the stuff life is made of.”
Think about it. Your life is made up of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. Time – you only have so much of it. The Bible tells us repeatedly that God has numbered our days and they pass quickly. Additionally, once each segment of time has passed, it is gone forever and you can never have it back. So what you do with your time matters very much.
I have often counseled people to consider carefully who you give your time to because since your life is made up of time, when you give somebody some of your time you have in essence given them a little piece of your life. And since once the time has past it is gone and you can never get it back, that means that when you give someone some of your time you have given them a piece of your life, and you can never have it back. That being true, giving someone your time is a precious gift. But not everyone is worthy of such a precious gift. Not everyone deserves to be given a little piece of your life that you can never have back. So give careful thought to who you will allow to take up your time.
As we approach the New Year beginning in January, and as we spend November thinking about how we will use our time in 2017, we need to remain conscious of just how precious that time is. Let’s not waste it on activities that really don’t matter, or on people who are not worthy of receiving such a precious gift.
Yes it’s true that all people are important to God and should therefore be important to us too. But it’s also true that we have a limited amount of time available to us, and it is precious time that can never be retrieved once it is gone. So we must be selective in our choices of the activities we will be involved in, and the people who will be allowed to have some of our time.
Do you value life? Then value your time, because time is the stuff life is made of.
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 