Investing Your Time
As a brand new year begins you need to consciously examine what you are doing with your time. Are you investing it? We must remember the words of Jesus in John 9:4: “As long as it is day, we must do the work of Him who sent me. Night is coming when no one can work.” “Night is coming when no one can work!” There comes a point in all of our lives when there will be no more time, there comes a moment in our existence when life on this earth will be complete. With that in mind, you should understand the finiteness of life means this is the time to be working and using the time we are given productively. We will not have a limitless amount. We must use what we have wisely. The most efficient and effective way to expend time is to invest it. More importantly, you should invest your time in that which is eternal.
Although most of us will live 70 or 80 years on this earth time is much longer and greater than those mere years. Time exists beyond our individual endings. If we only have a type of thinking in which we focus on this short period on Earth and don’t realize that life proceeds beyond that point, then we are making a critical mistake about the nature of this precious resource called time. It makes the most sense to invest our time in matters that are eternal. Every other idea, preoccupation or interest will be obsolete when this life has ended. When we focus on the eternal, we recognize that there are only two areas that are timeless—God and His Word, the Bible and people’s souls.
Now, examine the words of Jesus in relationship to this concept in Matthew 22:39: “Jesus replied, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment, and the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Right here Jesus gives us the ultimate insight about time; a golden, salient and perfect understanding of how we are meant to live on Earth. We are supposed to devote our time to those two eternal areas—God and people! We are supposed to take our limited resource of time and we are to invest it in that which will outlast any of us. What we do on this earth in regards to God and people’s souls will last forever, long after all earthly possessions have come and gone.
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