Making Wise Use Of Our Time

If we are wise, we understand how to use time to its fullest (see video). We arrange our priorities and do first things first (Matthew 6:33). We structure each day so that we get the most out of the time we are allotted. We understand the preciousness of living each moment we have, knowing that time is fleeting and our appointment with death and judgment is a certainty (Hebrews 9:27).

Scripture addresses the importance of using our time wisely while we have it. The Psalmist requests, “So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). Paul exhorts us, “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:15-16).

Jesus recognized the brevity of His time on earth to do His Father’s will – “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work” (John 9:4). It is certainly appropriate to exhort our youth to “remember thy creator in the days of thy youth….” (Ecclesiastes 12:1).

Beloved, we need to habitually “exhort one another daily while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13).

Why? Because today is all we have (James 4:13-14).

—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets