Is Our Time Well Spent?<\/b><\/p>\n
How would you like to spend 2 years making phone calls to people who aren\u2019t home? Sound absurd? According to one time management study, that\u2019s how much time the average person spends trying to return calls to people who never seem to be in. Not only that, we spend 6 months waiting for the traffic light to turn green, and another 8 months reading junk mail.<\/p>\n
These unusual statistics should cause us to do time-use evaluation. Once we recognize that simple \u201clife maintenance\u201d can chip away at our time in such huge blocks, we will see how vital it is that we don\u2019t busy ourselves \u201cin vain\u201d (Ps 39:6).<\/p>\n
Psalm 39 gives us some perspective. In David\u2019s complaint to God, he said, \u201cYou have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You\u201d (V. 5). He meant that to an eternal God our time on earth is brief. And He doesn\u2019t want us to waste it. When we do, we throw away one of the most precious commodities He gives us. Each minute is an irretrievable gift\u2014and unredeemable slice of eternity.<\/p>\n
Sure, we have to make the phone calls, and we must wait at the light. But what about the rest of our time? Are we using it to advance the cause of Christ and to enhance our relationship with Him? Is our time well spent?<\/p>\n
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