YOU CAN BANK ON IT

Today, we continue our series on Stewardship. As we preach the various lessons this month, please understand that we as individuals MUST commit (purpose in our heart-2 Cor. 9:7) and then manage our resources appropriately. A column appeared in the November 3, 1995 addition of the Flint Journal under the heading, “You Can Bank On It.” Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You’d draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and it’s name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.” Doesn’t the Bible teach this very thing? “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom” (Psa. 90:12). “Redeeming the time, because the days are
evil” (Eph. 5:16). “Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time” (Col. 4:5). How often do we find ourselves in any given day looking at our watches and realizing that much of our day is already gone? How often do we find ourselves thinking about all those things that we wished we would have accomplished, but failed to? If you are an organized person, then you are more likely to make the best use of your time. But if you are not, my challenge to you is to plan and organize your time in such a way to make the best use of it! “I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work” (John 9:4). Make a commitment TODAY to God and HIS service. We can’t say we can’t.

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