How you spend your time is a matter of great importance. Many people fool away their time, some in idle visits, others in recreations and pleasures which secretly bewitch the heart, and take it away from holy things. What are our golden hours for but to attend to our souls?
Time misspent is not time lived but time lost! Time is a precious commodity. As salvation is to be worked out in time, and a place in Heaven depends on using it well, time is of infinite concern!
Think of your short stay in the world. "We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a shadow gone so soon without a trace!" (1 Chronicles 29:15)
There is but a span between the cradle and the grave! Solomon says there is "a time to be born and a time to die" but mentions no time of living, as if that were so short, it was not worth naming!
Time, when it has once gone, can never be recalled. "My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away, filled with tragedy. It disappears like a swift boat, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey." (Job 9:25-26)
This Scripture compares time to a flying eagle. Yet time differs from the eagle in this: the eagle flies forward and then back again but time has wings only to fly forward, it never returns! Time flies away irrevocably!
The serious thoughts of our short stay here in this world, would be a great means of promoting godliness. Whoever considers how flitting and winged his life is will hasten his repentance.
[Thomas Watson]
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James 4:14 … 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.
Psalm 39:4 ...Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
Psalm 90:12 … So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Job 8:9 … (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Psalm 102:11 … My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Ephesians 5:16 … Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.❤
