DCLM Sincere Milk 28 DECEMBER 2021 — Use your time well
DCLM Sincere Milk 28 DECEMBER 2021 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Use your time well
TOPIC: USE YOUR TIME WELL
TEXT: PSALM 90:12-17
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Key Verse: “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom” (Psalm 90:12).
It is common today to hear children say things like, “I don’t have time”, “I’ll do it later”, “I wish I had more time to watch TV.”
MESSAGE:
Some complain they do not have enough time to do things they need to do. They, however, spend their time watching cartoons on TV, playing games on phones and delaying what they should do, for another time. Our lives are patterned by the way we use our time. To waste or spend our time unwisely is to waste our lives.
Also read You don’t have all the time
In the story of the ten virgins, five of them used their time well by getting all they needed. The other five were foolish. They delayed in buying extra oil. They could have spent their time well by buying extra oil at the right time. Painfully, the bridegroom came and shut the door before they came back from where they went to buy oil.
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How well do you spend your time? Do you wait for your parents to remind you again and again about things you should have done? Do you spend hours watching cartoons and playing video games before doing your homework and house chores? Do you read your Bible, pray and spend time with God every day?
Also Read: Bible Study messages
Wise children spend their time well. Beware! Waste of time is a waste of life!
Prayer: Father, please help me to use my time and life well.
Further Reading: Ecclesiastes 12:1-8
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
