24th June 2025

Use Your Time Wisely

 The days of our lives are seventy years;

And if by reason of strength they are eighty years,

Yet their boast is only labour and sorrow;

For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

     Psalm 90:10

Today's Bible Reading: James 4:13-17.

Nothing takes God by surprise. Everything is moving according to a plan, and God wants you in that plan. The devil also has a plan for the world. God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you are going to fit into. Scripture says that God allows us 70 years and some beyond. The first 15 are spent in childhood and early adolescence. Twenty years are spent in bed, and in the last five, physical limitations start to curtail our activities. That gives us about 30 years in which to live as adults. We take time out for eating, and for figuring our taxes, and other official paperwork, and we are down to perhaps 15 years. Now suppose we spend seven of those years listening to the radio or watching television. That cuts us down to seven or eight years. Our time is short! The time we can invest for God, in creative things, in reaching our fellow humans for Christ, is short!

Let's use our time wisely, in the service of our God and Saviour.

Prayer: Each hour of every day that is left of this earthly life, I would spend serving You, Lord God. Forgive the time spent so often in needless endeavour. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.