DCLM Higher Everyday 27 December 2024 — Time Management
DCLM Higher Everyday 27 December 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Time Management
Topic: Time Management
Text: Psalm 90:10-14
10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Key Verse: “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom” (Psalm 90:12).
Message
Alan Lakein, a famous American author on time management, is credited with several quotes, one of which is; “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.” The Psalmist in our text draws our attention to how brief life can be and admonishes us to apply wisdom in the way we use our time. Young people who continue to invest time in sinful and unprofitable activities like pornography, gambling, immorality, cultism, violence, internet fraud and so on, are surely not wise and will eventually realize they have wasted their lives when it is late in hell if they fail to repent. The opportunity to do so is still available.
Also Read: DCLM Higher Everyday 26 December 2024 – The Faithful Live By Faith
A wise youth should invest time in developing profitable life-transforming capacity, acquiring skills, building healthy social, professional and spiritual relationships. Time flies swiftly; use it wisely. Saved youths have the unlimited resources of heaven to tap into within the limited time life offers. Unsaved youths should accept Jesus today and not waste any more time in sin as the result may be calamitous.
Quote: Time flies swiftly; use it smartly.
Challenge: Invest time in developing profitable skills
Prayer for today: Lord, help me to use my time wisely.
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)
