How much time in an average day
would you say you waste?
Probably more than we'd like to admit, right?
What are the prime suspects?
There's TV.
You've got email.
Devices.
Internet.
Facebook.
These very things
that were meant to save us time,
it's ironic to me that
they're some of our biggest time wasters.
Not that they're bad things.
I mean, is it wrong to
watch a 21-minute Netflix episode
to wind down at night?
No.
But six hours of binge watching?
I think you see my point, right?
Listen to what the Apostle Paul says.
So we want to use our time in a way
that is pleasing to the spirit,
not to our sinful flesh.
Now, does that have to be bad things?
No, not necessarily.
It's all about keeping the proper priority in life.
The church father Augustine
called God
"the highest good"
and he said that anything we put above God
becomes evil even if it's a good thing
like our work or even our families.
So it's not necessarily that we love bad things.
It's just that sometimes,
we
love
good things badly.
But there was one who never wasted a second.
He never viewed a minute
of his time as his own.
He never hesitated to wake up
each day
and live each day for you
and die on a cross for you
so that one day,
you could spend each day with him forever.
Now, does that change things,
knowing that
that we have eternal life waiting for us?
Absolutely.
And so let's say you wake up one day
and you
have the alarm clock going off,
the most annoying noise in the entire world,
and it won't
shut off, kind of like on the movie Groundhog's Day.
And you throw it out against the wall and
and then you sit up in bed
and you hit your bed, head on the headboard.
And then you get out of bed and you walk
down to the end of the bed and you stub your toe
on the footboard and and then the coffeemaker broke
so you have no coffee
and you get in the shower
and the water heater went out through the night.
How good is the first 11 minutes of your day?
Not so good.
But now imagine that the whole rest of the day
was the best day you have ever had in your life.
Everyone's nice to you.
You meet the love of your life and
you get engaged in the same day.
You win the lottery three times without even playing.
Just, you name it.
You get a promotion at work.
It's just the best day.
Now, imagine that I come to you
at the end of the day and I say,
"So, how was your day?"
What would you say?
"Ugh, you would not believe my first 11 minutes."
No!
You wouldn't even remember that first 11 minutes
because of how awesome that day was.
That's what it's like knowing that
we have eternity before us,
knowing that my life is just a sliver
compared to eternity.
I can give a ridiculous amount of myself
and my time in service to God
and my neighbor.
And in fact, that line doesn't even do it justice.
What is the hymn writer John Newton
say in "Amazing Grace?"
"When we've been there, 10,000 years,
we've no less days to sing God's praise
than when we'd first begun."
What better way to use our time
than for Jesus.
I hope today's devotion about the use of our time
was a blessing to you.
Did you know that you can get
other practical advice
from God's Word?
Just check out our website at
yourtimeofgrace.org
where you'll see hundreds of other videos
based on God's Word.
Take a look and I'll see you back here tomorrow.
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