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【Redeeming the Time】Is there a "family-time famine" in your home? The Family Research Council, Focus on
the family's branch office in
【Redeeming the Time】In A.W. Tozer's book Man:
The Dwelling Place of God, there is a reference to an Associated Press
story about a British nobleman who died at 89 years of age. He had inherited great wealth and
therefore was free to do whatever he pleased. According to the article, he
"devoted his life to trying to breed the perfect spotted mouse." Think of it! Rather than using his privileged
position in life, with its potential for serving the Lord and for ministering
to human need, both material and spiritual, he devoted himself to perfecting
spotted mice. No mention was made
of this being a scientific experiment to benefit mankind. It seemed to be no more than a novel
pursuit to satisfy his narrow interest.
Now, let's make this
personal. When our life's work is
ended, will we have to say, "Then I looked on all the works that my hands
had done and...indeed all was vanity"? Or will we be able to say, "I
have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the
crown of righteousness"? (2 Tim. 4:7,8). We can if we put God first in all we do.
【Time】Time has been called a seamstress
specializing in alterations.
【Time】When a young man sits next to a hot stove,
a minute seems like an hour. But when a beautiful girl sits next to that young
man, an hour seems like a minute.
【Time】When you kill time, remember that it has
no resurrection.
【Use of Time】A study revealed
that an average seventy-year-old man has spent twenty-four years sleeping,
fourteen years working, eight years in amusements, six years at the dinner
table, five years in transportation, four years in conversation, three years in
education, and two years in studying and reading.
His
other four years were spent in miscellaneous pursuits. Of those four years, he
spent forty-five minutes in church on Sundays, and five minutes were devoted to
prayer each day. This adds up to a not at all impressive total of five months
that he gave to God over the seventy years of his life.
Even
if this man had been a faithful churchgoer who attended Sunday school and three
one-hour services per week, he would have spent only one year and nine months
in church!
If
you have a question about the above arithmetic, sit down and figure out how you
have been using your time. How large a portion of it is for the things related
to God? When you finish this exercise, ponder what Jesus said: “What good will
it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?…”(Matt.
16:26, NIV).