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MAUN
Many of us are so ignorant of the precious gift called time; we never even appreciate it and take it as just an obvious feature of life. But, tell you what, time is not a human concept, it is of God, we cannot buy more than what God gives us. We cannot know exactly how much time we have, no wonder Moses prayed, “So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom” (Ps. 90:12). It is painful to notice that time is such a precious gift from God and yet unappreciated; we don’t work for it, we just receive it. We wake up in the morning and find that we have been credited with another 24 hours. Some overlook its value and out of immense ignorance equate it with money! What a mismatch! Brethren, let us not be prodigal with time, for it is not money, rather life and opportunity! We know that if we squander our time we are squandering our lives. Time belongs to God, it is not ours, so let us use it wisely (Eph. 5:15-17) according to the will of God, taking into account that it is a finite commodity. If we don’t use some of it today, no balance will be carried forward for tomorrow, so that we get 30 hours or so. ‘Tomorrow’ we will still receive a fixed 24 hours. And let us do things with our time that are worth trading with; I can’t take my precious four hours and trade it with mere sleeping during the day! There’s no ‘worth’ in that! We must always ask God to lead us when we are planning how to use our time in a day, week, month or year. To exclude His direction from our plans is sheer folly, because He is the Author of time.
Bro. Gaotingwe Bamotshabile