GIVE GOD YOUR TIME

 

Time is the heritage of every person. Whether rich or poor, a truck driver, a business tycoon or clerk, mind you, each of us has the same number of hours in a day. Many necessities and opportunities demand much of our day. I can simply say that our work takes up large percentage of our life. Being an husband or wife, father or mother, employer or employee requires time. How then do you utilize your time?

A survey conducted by me shows that majority sees FRIDAY's as a day in which all sorts of evil are being carried out more the working days.Evil (which the world call fun in terms of relaxation, going to parties/night clubs just to mention a few).

I am not saying that some relaxation are not good, but how best do we utilize the time that God gave to us?

I found out that majority of us are not utilizing God's given time well. Instead we use it to FULFILL LUST OF THE FLESH.

Let us check what the Psalmist said in the 90th Psalm. He prays that God would teach him, and others, to become good stewards with time. “Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12). When it comes to the end of your life, your entire impact on this world will be boiled down to the one inch between the day you were born and the day that you died. The psalmist knew that life is relatively short against the span of God’s existence and eternity. “The length of our days is seventy years, or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” (Psalm 90:10).

In a sense the psalmist, a man named Moses, asked God for the grace to allow him to “number his days” so that he could find the value in each day. Each day he wanted to “gain a heart of wisdom,” or as it says in the KJV, “that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.” Not only did he want to value each day that he had, he also wanted God to give him the wisdom to see the hand of God move each day. He was asking for the ability to discern the things of God, and in learning His will and ways, apply them to make his life better.

If Moses could ask God for instruction on how to use his time, then what about us this very FRIDAY that we tagged as THANK GOD IS FRIDAY?

I have heard this quote by someone that said, “We master our minutes, or we become slaves to them; we use time, or time uses us.”  let therefore look at what Apostle Paul said about Time in  Ephesians :15-16, paul reveals God’s expectation for us relating to time. “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”.

God has granted us the grace to get out of bed this today. Our hearts are still beatings. Our brains are still working. Despite how busy we may be, or make ourselves, God is asking for our times. remember Cain and Abel’s offerings were based on the “first fruit” principle, shouldn’t our use of time fall into that category as well?

Take a propal look at your life now. Are you too busy? Are you denying God the best that you can be? Are you robbing family and friends of you? Take a careful look at your life. Look at areas where you feel the wheel is spinning out of control. Ask God to give you the grace to “redeem your time” wisely. Ask Him to help you to “number your days aright.”

We have all been given 24 hours a day in which we live. Let us it wisely for God and not for "SELF". We are in this world as visitors and one day, return back unto Him that sent us. 

THANK GOD IS FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!