The Clock Is Ticking--Stewardship Of Tiime

Satan will always have something to offer to us to cause us to waste time. That which seems so important today, may only be something which kept us from making the most of the time God gave to us. Does your life reflect a life that is seeking to build the kingdom of God around it? Does it reflect a life of you building your own little kingdom, not that much differently from Raoul.

Good stewardship of our time does not mean we spend every waking moment of our lives trying to get to church or doing something in the church. Good stewardship of our time begins with the realization that God has given each of us a certain number of days to live. God may or may not give us any warning as to when that time is up. There will never be a better time for us to begin to seriously serve the Lord than right now, because that’s the only way to make the most of the time we have left.

A good stewardship of our time, recognizes all of our time belongs to the glory of God. Whatever we do, which cannot be done to the glory of God, needs to be eliminated from our lives. Every day the clock is ticking. Each time you look at your watch, look at your spiritual watch and ask, I’m I doing what I’m doing to the glory of God.

Our aim as Christian is not to be as wealthy, healthy, and happy as possible. If God wants us to have wealth, He knows how to get it to us. He knows how to keep us healthy. He knows how to keep us happy. We do not have to miss church and Bible study in order to pursue those kinds of things. Our aim as Christians should be to be as rich toward God as we can be before the clock stops ticking. To be rich toward God is to be in the place of saying, "God I want as much of you as I can have no matter what." "God I want to be filled with your Spirit so that wherever I go, people can not but help see Jesus in my life."

Each of us here determines each day, just how much of Jesus we are going to let into our lives. You have got as much of God in you right now as you want to have. I guarantee you, a large part is based on your stewardship of your time. If you do not have time for God in your schedule, you do not have much of God in your spirit. You can want as big a bank account as you would like to have. Your bank is not going to limit what you put in. You can even brag that you have a million dollars in your account when you’ve only got 10 dollars. The bank has no problem with you bragging. The only time you will run into a problem is when you try to take out more than you have put in. The bank says, wait a minute, until you invest some more, you can’t receive any more.

We want to take more out of God than we have put into the relationship. The only problem is we have not invested enough. We are right back to the reason why some build houses on rock and others on sand. You can build a lot quicker on sand, because it does not take as much work as finding the right rocks, then breaking them up into pieces, then cementing them together and leveling them off. We all look as if we are building houses on rocks today, but some of us are not going to stand when the storms come.