Get On God's Team Here Is My Time

Get On The Team It Takes Teamwork To Make The Dream Work

Here’s My Time

11/8/2020 Psalm 90:1-12 Mark 3:13-19

We are in part 2 of our series “Get On The Team-It Takes Teamwork To Make The Dream Work.

Last week Pastor Toby emphasized that if we are on God’s team, we are to offer our services and spiritual gifts that God has given us to the life of the church and body of Christ. She encouraged us to examine our lives to see if we are contributing our part of service in the kingdom of God.

Do you consider yourself part of the first string on the team, or do you consider yourself on the second team, third team or just a bench warmer.

The more important you consider God’s call upon you, the more you will make yourself available to serve.

One of the most important players in a basketball, hockey, football or soccer game never gets to play, but often gets everybody attention especially towards the end.

This player manages to bring out the best in players when all hope seems lost. The player is the time clock. Some teams do more in the last two minutes of a game than they accomplished the whole game and they end up winning the game.

Unfortunately, we can’t wait until the final two minutes of our lives and pull off a great victory, because for us the when the time runs out, it’s not the game that we celebrate, but rather the life which is to come in heaven.

One thing that every human being gets equally from God is the same number of seconds in every minute, the same number of hours in a day and the same number of days in a year.

Daylight Savings Time is actually make believe. We can’t save it, we just push it around.

Time is something that we have that is different from other things we have been given. I can’t let you borrow some of mine. I can’t give you some of mine to add to yours. I can’t even lose it like I do my car keys. I can’t save some of it for a later day. With time, I am either investing it or wasting it or sharing it.

The writer of Psalms prayed that God we teach us to number our days that we might gain a heart of wisdom.

The psalmist David said that we get 70 years, and if our strength endures we might get 80 years of life. The Lord has blessed many of us well beyond the 80 and 90 year old mark.

David lived to be about 70 years old. But since he gave us the 70-80 range lets take 75 years . Someone has taken how the average person in the United States will spend 75 years.

3 solid years 24/7 will be spent in grade school to college

7 solid years 24/7 will be spent eating

14 straight years, no breaks on the job

5 years in a car, bus, plane traveling

5 years will be spent talking

1 year recovering from illness

24 years will be spent sleeping

3 years, reading (now on computer)

12 years entertainment, tv, sports, fishing, hobbies

1 year left to do everything else

The question is how much of that time is being invested in our relationship with God. We are going to spend a fraction of our life here on earth. Yet the way most of us live, our goal is to prepare for the last 5, 10, 20 years of retirement.

If we truly believe that Jesus was telling the truth about heaven, and how long it lasts, shouldn’t we spend our time in such a way to prepare to live there instead of our golden years on earth.

The years are not nearly as golden in retirement as we are led to believe. Psalm 90 lets us know God is planning on being around for all of eternity.

Jesus came to this earth knowing that he had a limited amount of time to accomplish God’s work. He had a dream of saving people from their sins and empowering them to live their lives for God in such a way that time would be their asset.

You see time is either working for us or against us depending on what we are doing as it passes. That’s why its important to know what’s important.

Jesus knew very early, that it was going to take teamwork in order to make his dream work. He also knew that he was working in a very short window. His public ministry lasted from 3 to 5 years.

When you get my age at 64, having someone tell me I have 20 years left to live is not that comforting. Why? Because I remember how quickly it seems the last 20 years went by.