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Your Time Matters- To Your Family Series
Contributed by Clay Hallmark on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: This is the 3rd Message in a series called "Your Family Mattes." This message deals with the importance of the time we give our families.
A) CONTINUALLY SAY “NO” TO FAMILY TIME ROBBERS!
Be honest . . . there will always be something else to do with our time! There will always be somewhere else you can be. However, if you are going to spend time with your family then you are going to have to learn to say a new word . . . “NO”. Everyone say it with me! Now was that so hard???? It is time we started saying ‘Yes’ to the Lord and ‘no’ to everyone else, including our boss, our friends, and others who are robbing family time from you!
Let me ask you a question: 50 years from now which is going to more important: Spending time with your family and your kids, or watching a sitcom on TV, reading the newspaper, or running around with your friends? Not one person on their deathbed has said, “I wish I had spent more time at work making a few more dollars!”
B) FAMILY TIME IS SHORT SO MAKE SOME HAPPY MEMORIES!
One of the great things I am continuing to learn is that I am only going to have my kids for a few more years and then they will be gone. I don’t want that time to pass by and me say regretfully, “Why did I give my time to everyone else, but not my kids? Why did I think it was so important to be a work 1 more hour? Why didn’t I coach their teams? Why didn’t I watch their school programs? How did I miss my children?” I can promise you before God that I am doing all I can to never ask those kinds of questions in my own life!
James writes in 4:14, “What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.” What James is saying is the only time we are promised is the time we have right now so we had better make the most of it for the glory of God and good of our families.
In Ecclesiastes 3:11, we read these words, “God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” God has set eternity in our hearts. We can’t understand eternity, but we can know for certain where we will spend eternity. The time for that decision is now! The time you have now is all you’re promised, but it is not all there is. You will spend eternity in either Heaven or Hell . . . the difference is what you do right now with Jesus in the time you have to receive Him into your life! If you time is up today where would you spend the rest of your time in eternity?
Where are you investing your time today? Are you investing your time in the eternal things of God or wasting them on selfish pursuits? Are you giving time to your family?
