May I Use My Time Wisely

The alarm went off and I groaned. It’s not that time already. Peeling my eyes open and squinting at the time, I was hoping the clock was wrong. I laughed thinking about that thought. As if the clock could be wrong, probably more like ‘user error’ as my daughter states.

Time in life just keeps ticking on. I seem to be rushing from one event to the next.

I do remember now why I enjoyed school holidays so much. The tyranny of keeping to a time schedule was relaxed and sleep-ins were a pleasure. Relaxed meals at the dinner table accompanied with enjoyable conversation, with no time master sitting on your shoulder telling you the next thing on your list.

We all have those precious moments with family and friends that we don’t want to end. The times at Christmas, New Year, Thanksgiving where we try and make time to thank God for the blessings of family and friends.

There was a time when we only saw some members of the family once a year at Christmas and I so enjoyed catching up with them. I do remember though getting frustrated once the meal was over, that everyone dispersed, some to the kitchen to clean dishes, some to the tv and often the children outside. The kitchen at my husband’s parents place (where we held the dinners or lunches) was so small that only a few people could be in there at once. So, I suggested to buy good quality paper plates and then we could just throw them in the bin. That way there would be minimal cleaning and more time around the dinner table.

As the years went on there were engagement celebrations, weddings, births of babies and even the celebration of people’s lives at their funerals. The celebration of baby milestones like walking and talking, the Birthday celebrations of loved ones all included in the get-togethers.

Time is so precious because it is limited. Spending whatever time we have with people is so important.

Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 144:4

Remember what my span of life is;

For what vanity you have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 89:47

You see this so often in newspapers or online news articles, where young lives are lost in road accidents, in sicknesses, in tragedies. But some of us are vain enough to think that we are invincible, that nothing can stop us. Truth is we all have a limited time here on earth.

So let us LOVE while we can.

On the other side of the coin, we may have a limited time here, but we do have on offer an eternal home in heaven. The prize is already available to us. We all win if we take up the offer. But we can’t wait, there may be no more time left, the choice is ours now. 

The life we live now is so much better if we take up the offer to know the Lord Jesus Christ.

To know of His Love for us and what He has done for us. To know now and into the future the eternal Life with Him offered.

So, as I reflect upon all of this, the alarm beeps again. I lean up and turn off the noise. I’m now wide awake and excited to use my time wisely. To use the day to love people, to love My God and see what the day may bring.

I lift up a quick prayer, “May I use my time wisely today Lord for you.”

Where do you need to reflect on your time, your opportunity that may come your way to love people?

May these jottings from my journal inspire you to believe in and fall in love with Christ- the hope of the world, as stated in Jeremiah 17:7, ‘Blessed is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord!’

Love

Rosemary

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Do you need to put more time towards loving those in your life? What do you need to do to ensure you make time?

Have you chosen to know the Lord Jesus Christ? Do you need to spend more time with Christ?