I received the below email this morning and it really got me thinking.
“Your Life's Account”
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!!!
Imagine that you had won the following prize in a contest:
Each morning your bank would deposit $ 86,400.00 in your private account for your use.
However, this prize had rules, just as any game has certain rules.
The first set of rules would be :-
Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you. You may not simply transfer money into some other account. You may only spend it.
Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $ 86,400.00 for that day.
The second set of rules:
The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, Its over, the game is over! It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.
What would you personally do?
You would buy anything and everything you wanted, right? Not only for yourself, but for all people you love ? Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?
You would try to spend every cent, and use it all, right?
ACTUALLY, THIS GAME IS REALITY!!
Each of us is in possession of such a magical bank....we just cant seem to see it.
THE MAGICAL BANK IS TIME!
Each awakening morning we receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life,
and when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is NOT credited to us.
What we haven't lived up that day is forever lost....yesterday is forever gone.!!
Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time.
WITHOUT WARNING. !!
WELL, what will you do with your 86,400 seconds? Aren't they worth so much more than the same amount in dollars? Think about that, and always think of this:-----Enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.” So take care of yourself, and enjoy life!
Now this is an eye opener. 86,400 seconds, what do i do with them. I know for sure it makes me feel guilty because i surely do waste a lot of precious seconds every day and God must be very disappointed in me for the way i spend the seconds that He gives me each day. It is so easy in our humanness to waste our time and at the end of the day we wonder what happened that we didn’t accomplish anything. I guess right now i’m not thinking so much of actual physical time wasters but, instead the mental time wasters in our lives. Like feeling sorry for ourselves, complaining, crabbing or whining and those are technically time wasters.* We can’t serve the Lord that way. We can’t glorify Him that way. What must the world think of us? What must our unsaved loved ones think of God when we live like this. We’re told in Philippians 4:4, Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. It says always, not just when things are going good – ALWAYS. Life is not easy but, praise God as His children we have Him, we have Jesus, we have the Holy Spirit** to walk through it with us and the strength*** only God can give if we would but ask for it. And remember whatever we are going through at this very minute is nothing compared to what He went through for us. I think sometimes we look at what Jesus went through as, “Oh but, He was God’s son, everything was easier for Him” but, it wasn’t. In His human form on this earth He felt the pain of ridicule and persecution just as we do. He understood what it felt like when no one would believe His words. He felt the jarring, excruciating pain of every strike of the mallet as those who didn’t believe pounded each nail into his hands and feet. He felt the agonizing pain of hanging in the air on the cross as all of His weight bore down on those nails and tore His muscles and flesh. He felt His mother’s pain as she watched in horror what they were doing to her son. He felt the sting of every cruel word as unbelievers chanted ridicule and insults at Him. God his own father rejected Him because He had taken all of our sin upon Himself and God could not look upon sin. He loved us so much that He bore the weight of our sin and His fathers rejection for me, for us!**** How blessed are we that we don’t have to go through our earthly trials alone. Even when i think that life is so rough sometimes i just want to give up – it is nothing compared to what my Jesus went through for me. To think with all of life’s problems – i have Jesus to walk with me and the Holy Spirit to guide me. At the worst time in His life He couldn’t even ask His own father for help. He had to bear our burdens alone. ALL ALONE He died for me, for us. We have Him and all His strength, His grace, His mercy and most of all we have His love. I think the trickiest part in our day and age is sorting out the time we waste and then we will find we have much more time for God. In Psalm 46:10 He says, Be still and know that I am God. When we are still so that we can hear Him then He will strengthen us for whatever battle we are facing.***** I must try to do better at loving Him back and i must show Him by using my 86,400 seconds more productively that He may be glorified and maximized in my life and not minimized. You know in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 God has a time for everything. I think the important thing to remember is that God needs to be in control of our time and not us and everything else will fall into place. We can’t wallow in the mire and make progress at the same time. The mire will bog us down.
Oh dear Lord and Father of mine, help me to love you more and in loving you more let it be obvious who is in control of my life and my time, right down to the very second. Help me to use every second as though it is my last that You may be glorified in every one. Thank you Jesus, amen
* – Philippians 2:14
** - John 14:16, 17, 26
*** - Philippians 4:13
**** - Matthew 27:28-31, 46;
Mark 15:16-34
***** - Isaiah 40:29-31
******- Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Philippians 4:11
Oh well, i’ve been rambling on again, i just get a thought in my head and i can’t let it go. Good day to you all!
