The man who received the five bags “put his money to work.” He made five more bags for his Master. But then the Lord’s judgment in the parable of the bags of gold in Matthew 25:14-30 was also harsh. That seems a bit harsh, calling an idle man a fool. That means we need to be serious with the time God gives us and in that time we should work hard,ġ1 Hard work means prosperity only a fool idles away his time. Paul knew his time was limited and he obviously felt the pressure to reach as many people as he could during his life. While he was in prison, he evangelized his jailers, sang praise songs to God, and wrote letters to his churches. Paul understood that basic principle well. If you want to live wisely in God’s eyes, use your time and opportunities well. Paul gave careful instructions to his young church in Ephesus that relate to the passage of time:ġ5 Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise,ġ6 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. How can we best use our time? We are to make the best use of time – use it wisely and for God What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.īecause time is so brief and so important, we should use it wisely. The span of my years is as nothing before you.ġ4 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. God’s people know that feeling well and know we are made to feel the brevity of life.ĥ You have made my days a mere handbreadth The older I have become, the faster time seems to pass and the faster my life seems to pass me by. No one I know would argue that life seems brief. He has also set eternity in the human heart yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. God gave us limited years and made us conscious of that by making us conscious of eternity.ġ1 He has made everything beautiful in its time. We were created conscious of time and most view time as a brief and uncertain commodity.
We live with limited time – it is short and uncertain God made us to live in time, to be limited by time and to enjoy the time He gives us. How you handle, or are a steward of, your time has a major impact on your ability to earn money, the depth and success of your personal relationships, and even your overall health. The key to your future quite literally lies in the way you spend the time you have been given. We have all heard that old proverb (perhaps from Benjamin Franklin), “time is money.” Many are paid “by the hour.” Another old saying is, “Lost time is never found.” Time is also referred to as a gift, which it certainly is. So, let’s focus on being good stewards of this precious and limited commodity, our time. No one gets more no matter how much money or power they have.īut then why do some seem to get so much more done and be such amazing producers? The answer is, of course, that some are better stewards of their time. That means everyone has 31,536,000 seconds or 525,600 minutes every year. You can live without money, but when your time runs out, you are finished! You have the same amount of this valuable resource that everyone else has, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and 365 (or 366) days in a year. How precious is it? Reportedly, the dying words of Queen Elizabeth I were these: “All my possessions for a moment of time.” It can be spent or wasted but can never be saved or returned to you. Everyone’s supply is renewed every single day he or she is alive. It is a resource that is universally nondiscriminatory and fairly distributed. There is a resource you have that is far more precious than your money.
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