RE: Yor bank account

Imagine that you have a bank that automatically credits your account every morning with $86,400…but carries over NO balance from day to day.  As the midnight hour strikes, whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day vanishes.

What would you do with such an account?  Withdraw it, or spend every cent, of course!

Well, today’s good news is that each one of us has such a bank account… it was opened in our name the moment that we were conceived…and just like our fingerprints or our DNA, it accompanies us where ever we go, it's ours to do with as we please!

The name of this account is…TIME.  Every new day, each of us is credited with 86,400 seconds.  Every night the amount that we have failed to invest, wisely or otherwise, is written off…lost forever.  This account carries over NO balance.  It allows NO overdraft, none can inherit it…and it gains no interest!

Each day, a new deposit is made.  Each night, at the midnight hour, our account is emptied. If we have failed to use the day’s deposits, the loss is ours.  There is NO going back. There is NO drawing against tomorrow. 

How are YOU spending your $86,000?

Have you heard the phrase “killing time” Maybe you have even used it yourself?

God’s Word warns us to be very circumspect with our use of time…  

Therefore, be watching how carefully you are walking about [fig., conducting yourselves], not as unwise but as wise, redeeming [fig., making the best use of] the time, because the days are evil. For this reason, stop becoming foolish, but understand what [is] the will of the Lord. And stop getting drunk with wine, in which is reckless behavior, but continue being filled with [the] Spirit. Ephesians 5:15-18 Analytical-Literal Translation 

Be walking about [fig., be conducting yourselves] with wisdom toward the [ones] outside, redeeming [or, making the best use of] the time. Colossians 4:5

The Greek word for redeeming is exagorazō [pronounced ex-ag-or-ad'-zo] and it means to figuratively buy up, ransom, or rescue from loss. The use of the word in these verses clearly implies that we are to rescue or recover our time from waste; to improve it for the great and important purposes God has in store for each of us. 

We are to watch our use of time, to control it, looking for opportunities to spend it wisely.  We must INVEST it to get the utmost in life from it!  The clock is ticking . . . . . .

NOW is the time to make our lives right with God! “For He says: 'In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you.' Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation” 2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV

In a lifetime the average Westerner will spend:
6 months waiting at traffic lights
6 months complaining
8 months opening/reading junk mail
1 year watching sport
1 year looking for misplaced objects
1 year off work due to illness
2 years answering and returning phone calls
4 years doing housework
4 years washing yourself
5 years waiting in line
6 years eating

12 years watching television
24 years at work
26 years asleep 
A very long time in the grave!

 

The Bible does not say, “If you hurry, you can catch up with God.” It does say, “Be still (or cease your striving) and know that I am God.” Psalms 46:10 Jesus did not say, “Join up with me and I will work you eighteen hours per day.” Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
 

How much time have you spent getting ready for eternity?

Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears. 
James 4:13-14 MKJV

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Updated and re-posted from May 2012.