Most people in the world today are too busy chasing down time trying to find out where it lives. Only having to find out, that they had been wasting time. We all are guilty of this by using some of these catchy phases for example you may have heard of some of them:
A. Well if you don’t know, then your wasting my Time
B. Can you tell me the Time
C. Quit sitting around wasting your Time
D. Why are taking your Time
E. Just don’t just keep lagging behind dragging your foot
These are but a few statements that we say throughout our lives to one another and sometimes in a good light or in a bad light. In any case, we need to stop wasting time looking for time. One thing that all of you should take note of is that while trying to find some, or as others might say “make time,” time will play a loop on you. In other words, while trying to find time or make time for a thing is that “time” has a few friends who love to tag along. Time’s friends are:
- Side track
- Lost track
- off track
- Idle track
Now when time’s three little friend show up, each one of them wants to take you for a ride. Well enough of us wasting time talking about time, let’s see what the Word of God has to say about time and being idle
Ecclesiastes 11:3-10 (KJV)
3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. 6 In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for
they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
As human being we don’t have that long of time up on this earth.
Psalms 90:7-11
7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
So just don’t stand around going through emotional pit falls doing nothing or just doing things that suit you because only what you do for Christ will last.
Ecclesiastes 9:9-12
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. 10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. 11. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 12 For man also knoweth not his
time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
1 John 2:14-17
14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
In my Conclusion, I’m leaving you with these from the Lord:
Ephesians 5:1-33, Ephesians 4:27-28 but all of the 4th chapter. You should also read 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12.