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Is Your Time Well Spent?. Bank Account: $86,400.00 deposited every morning Remaining balance deleted every evening Time: 86,400 seconds given to you every day No roll over minutes Time is traded for an experience (an activity) Time can be spent, wasted, or budgeted
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Is Your Time Well Spent? • Bank Account: $86,400.00 deposited every morning • Remaining balance deleted every evening • Time: 86,400 seconds given to you every day • No roll over minutes • Time is traded for an experience (an activity) • Time can be spent, wasted, or budgeted • We can’t “make time” • “find time” • “save time”
Is Your Time Well Spent? • 70 year old person spends: • 23 years sleeping and 16 years working (39) • 8 years watching TV and 6 years eating (14) • 6 years traveling, 5 years waiting in lines (11) • 2 years returning calls, 2 years dressing (4) • 1 year searching for lost items (total: 69) • 8 months opening junk mail • 6 months on his religion
Philippians 3:13-14 • 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. • Yesterday is history. Tomorrow’s a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. • Time is too precious to waste
Appropriate Event to Time • Eccl. 3:1-8 “a time to every purpose” • The past is not for living in Eccl. 7:10 • The future is not for fearing Num. 14:1-4 • The present is not for wasting • The present is “doing time” • “I just don’t have time” (priorities) • Contentment is found in the “Now” not in the future or past: Phil. 4:11, Heb. 13:5
Appropriate Event to Time • Eccl. 3:1-8 “a time to every purpose” • A time to worship (hour of prayer, evening sacrifice, Lord’s day, assembling of saints) • A time to work: John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. • A time to play (attention to children) • A time to die (Ps. 90:9-10, Eccl. 9:11-12)