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The Talent of Time, April 21
Improving My Talents
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:15, 16
God bestows talents upon men, not that these talents may lie unused
or be employed in self-gratification, but that they may be used to bless
others. God grants men the gift of time for the purpose of promoting His
glory. When this time is used in selfish pleasure, the hours thus spent
are lost for all eternity.
Our time belongs to God. Every moment is His, and we are under
the most solemn obligation to improve it to His glory. Of no talent He
has given will He require a more strict account than of our time.
The value of time is beyond computation. Christ regarded every
moment as precious, and it is thus that we should regard it. Life is too
short to be trifled away. We have but a few days of probation in which to
prepare for eternity....
The human family have scarcely begun to live when they begin to
die, and the world’s incessant labor ends in nothingness unless a true
knowledge in regard to eternal life is gained. The man who appreciates
time as his working day will fit himself for a mansion and for a life that
is immortal. It is well that he was born....
Life is too solemn to be absorbed in temporal and earthly matters,
in a treadmill of care and anxiety for the things that are but an atom
in comparison with the things of eternal interest. Yet God has called
us to serve Him in the temporal affairs of life. Diligence in this work
is as much a part of true religion as is devotion. The Bible gives no
endorsement to idleness. It is the greatest curse that afflicts our world.
Every man and woman who is truly converted will be a diligent worker.
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The moments are freighted with eternal consequences.
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