Posted on 01/30/2014 1:55:45 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
When I was a child in elementary school, people often asked me, “What is your favorite subject?” Invariably my response was one of two things. I either said, “recess” or “gym.” My answer revealed my deepest predilections. I preferred play to work. Indeed, my nascent philosophical musing regarding the cosmic “Why?” questions took place as I made a game of walking to school via tiptoeing along a long path, pretending I was a high-wire walker in a circus.
I asked myself the meaning of life wherein I had to spend five days a week doing what I didn’t want to do just so I could play on the weekends. I was always at the schoolyard a full hour before school began—not out of a zeal for getting a head start on my studies, but so I could “redeem” the daily grind by having an hour’s worth of fun on the playground before the school bell rang. For me, time redemption meant rescuing precious minutes of play from the required hours of work.
I’ve come to realize that when the apostle Paul exhorted his readers to “[redeem] the time, because the days are evil” (Eph. 5:16), my practices are not exactly what he had in mind. His was a solemn call to the productive use of one’s time in the labor of Christ’s kingdom.
Coram Deo
Do you use your time productively for the kingdom of God?
Passages for Further Study
Ephesians 5:15–16 Psalm 31:15 1 Corinthians 7:29
BTTT
Thanks, good way to start the day.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY BUY ON THE MARKET NOWADAYS WHAT IS CALLED A ‘COUNTDOWN WATCH’ AFTER YOU ANS. A SERIES OF QUESTIONS A COMPUTER PROGRAM AT THE CO. WEBSITE CALCULATES THE YEAR AND DATE THE EVIDENCE SHOWS YOU ARE GONNA CROAK.
YOU THEN ENTER THAT DATE INTO THE WATCH AND THE FACE OF THE WATCH WILL CONTINUALLY SHOWS YOU A CONTINUALLY CHANGING GRAPHIC INDICATING HOW FAST YOUR LIFETIME IS RUNNING OUT .....
THE PURPOSE IS TO URGE THE WEARER GET OFF HIS CAN AND TO MAKE USE OF EVERY SECOND YOU LEFT TO ENJOY LIFE.....
PRESCIENT...YOU MIGHT WANT TO PICK ONE UP....
Even the apostle Peter was motivated by “knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent”. (2 Peter 1:14)
Thanks for the post.
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