Don't Waste Your Time.

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Ephesians 5:15-16 days, “ See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,   Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” 

     People that grew up in the depression don’t want to waste anything.   My Father saved a lot of stuff in old coffee cans.  Nails that were taken out of boards, were straightened and put in a can to be used again.  Even string was kept on a ball that would get larger and larger.  You never knew when you were going to need a piece of string. The same was true with rubber bands.  About the only thing that got thrown away was an opened tin can.  My Father also gave me instructions on how to peel a potato, using the tip of the peeler or a paring knife to take the eyes out instead of just cutting them down smooth.  Mom even canned marinated watermelon rinds.  Sad to say, we are now living in a “throw away” society where much of what we have is expendable, that is, don’t save it, or fix it, just get a new one;  We have become a people that  wastes a lot of things.

     One of the things t hat we seem to waste more and more is a simple one.  It is “time.”  For many, our lives have become easy and filled with more free time than we had before.  In the early yers of my life, doing the laundry took a lot more time than it does now.  Wash tubs had to be filled, the ringer washer had to be run which meant that you were going to run clothes through the wringer into the rinse and then wring them out  again before you carried the wet load out to the clothes line to pin each piece up on a rope to dry..  God has blessed us with technical progress whereby we have a lot more free time.  Now, the question is, “What  do I do with the free time that He has given  me?”   When we had “deadlines” to meet in our job, we found out that we can get  a lot done in a small amount of time.    We often met those deadlines, tired and exhausted, but we met them successfully.  Perhaps now we have a lot  of time to get things done but don’t do nearly as much as we did before.  The above passage mentions the circumspectly walk.  You walk carefully as you would walk in a mine field, watching where you place your feet.  Our careful walk is one that involves how we function in the places that God has placed us.  How do I pray for people?  When do I pray for people?  Who needs to hear the message of salvation”  Should i read the Bible?  When?  How much?  My life is filled with more free time now than ever before.  I find that I can now choose to read, hear, study, memorize, and meditate on God’s Word.  I find that I can say that prayer at any moment.  I find that I have tome to greet a person or to say how well they are doing in their work.  Praise God today for the time t hat He has given you.  May you use it wisely.