Read 1 Cor 7:29; Eph. 5:14-17; Col. 4:5-6.
Time is a gift from God and as a gift should be
valued. Different than most gifts, it is
divided into small periods: years, months (12), days (365), hours (8760),
minutes (525,600) and seconds (31,536,000).
As the clock ticks off seconds it scratches them out. Then can never be relived.
Our passage says, "The time is short" (1 Cor.
7:29).
ƒ Why
is time short.
1. Because
of the brevity of life. Life is like a
vapor (Js 4:14).
2. Because
of the uncertainty of opportunity. Once
God said, "My Spirit will not always strive with man."
3. Because
of the multiplicity of things that crowd in.
There are so many demands in our modern age that time gets shortened for
spiritual necessities.
4. Because
of the second coming of Christ (Mt. 24:4-12).
ƒ Things
that time is short for.
Negatively, there seems to be plenty of time, too much
time, to be lost and without Christ, to serve the world, to walk in the
flesh. But given the demands of life, I
would suggest time is short...
w To
be saved. Need I impress upon you the
need of being saved? Your life is at
stake. Without Christ you are eternally
lost. Time is short to be saved. NOW is the day of salvation.
w To
witness. Look about you. Here is Yermo there are many that need to be
saved. See the young people in your
homes. What of those with whom you
work. There is no time to lost; they may
go into eternity tonight.
w To
pray. Do you realize the power of
prayer? So then I ask, how much do you
pray for your children? your Sunday School class? your church? the unsaved?
w To
read your Bible.
w To
lay up treasure in Heaven.
There should be no such word as "tomorrow" in
the Christian's vocabulary. The time IS
short.
The opportunities of today will be gone tomorrow.
No comments:
Post a Comment