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Time a Precious Talent, June 1
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom.
Psalm 90:12
.
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. We have no time to waste, no time to devote to
selfish pleasure, no time for the indulgence of sin. It is now that we are
to form characters for the future, immortal life. It is now that we are to
prepare for the searching judgment.
The human family have scarcely begun to live when they begin to
die.... 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. We are admonished to redeem the time. But time squandered
can never be recovered. We cannot call back even one moment. The
only way in which we can redeem our time is by making the most of
that which remains, by being co-workers with God in His great plan of
redemption....
Every moment is freighted with eternal consequences. We are to
stand as minute men, ready for service at a moment’s notice. The
opportunity that is now ours to speak to some needy soul the word of
life may never offer again. God may say to that one, “This night thy
soul shall be required of thee,” and through our neglect he may not be
ready. (
Luke 12:20
.) In the great judgment day, how shall we render our
account to God?
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