Investing your Time

 

One thing is a book written by Geoff Woods.   If you have not read the book, I encourage to do so.     I had the chance to hear Geoff Woods speak (not in person, but via video) a few months ago.     One of the things Geoff said is that there is a difference in how we spend our time and how we invest our time.   

Time.   It is one of the few things in life that we can spend, but we cannot buy.     This “pandemic time” over the course of recent months has given me a lot of time to think.    As I have mourned the death of people that died related to COVID and the death of people who died from other causes, it has reminded me how precious are people in my life, the time with them, and how precious is the gift of time in general.      

How are you spending your time and how are you investing your time?    All of us may not have funds to invest monies in the stock market, but all of us have the gift of the time right now.   How will you invest your time on this day?     What one thing will be your focus and  your aim this day, this week, and in your life?     We do not get a “do-over” on this gift called life and even in this day.     Psalm 90: 4-6,12 puts it this way:  

⁴ A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.
⁵ Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
⁶ In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.
¹² Teach us to number our days,
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

How will you invest your time in the gift of this day?    Make it count for the glory of God.   Have a joy-filled week.-  Pastor Randy Wall

 

PRAYER

    God, I thank you for the gift of this day and for my life.   Lord, help me to use the gift of time wisely and do it all to honor and glorify you;  through Christ our Lord.   Amen.