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“Do you devote your time to God?”
Categories: Christian PrinciplesDaily Devotional
By Tom Smith from the Wooddale Church of Christ
There are 168 hours in a week. There are 10,080 minutes in a week. How many of those hours and minutes do you devote to God?
Life is short Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. Don't waste the day, but work towards making it a success James 4:13-14 Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. We don't know what the next day brings Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Use your time to prepare not for earthly things, but for Godly, so as you will not be as the rich fool Luke 12:16-21 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Work while there is time John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. Don't be idle Matthew 20:4-6 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
An idle soul will hunger Proverbs 19:15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. Don't waste time in regrets but look forward Philippians 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Don't waste time in worry, because the Lord will provide Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Again the question is asked, "How many of those hours and minutes do you devote to God?"
