Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. --James 4:14
Imagine if you were to check your bank account one morning only to find a direct deposit for $86,400. And it goes on for weeks!
Each morning you find a new deposit for this amount…but soon realize that your balance is not carried over to the next day. Instead, it is deleted each evening and the next morning you begin again with a new balance of $86,400.
What would you do when you finally realized your account balance would be deleted each evening if you didn’t use it all that day? Of course…you’d withdraw the balance left over each day!
You and I have such a bank account called time. Each day we are credited with 86,400 seconds. And every night that which we have not used is deleted from our account. However, our time accounts do not allow overdrafts, loans, or savings options.
We must invest our time wisely in this life. According to one time management study, the average person spends two years making phone calls to people who are not at home, six months waiting for traffic lights to turn green, and another eight months reading junk mail!
Have you evaluated the way you use your time lately? Are you using it wisely to glorify the Lord? Psalm 39:6 says, “Man is a mere phantom as he goes to and fr he bustles about, but only in vain; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will get it.”
Our time on this earth is brief. God wants us to use every minute of our lives to serve and honor Him. Determine to use your time wisely to advance the cause of Christ.
PRAYER CHALLENGE: Pray that God would show you how to spend your time wisely and to keep you from wasting precious opportunities to further His Kingdom.
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