JOB 14 – time is precious – a continuation…

JOB 14 IN FULL

‘Man who is born of a woman
is few of days and full of trouble.
He comes out likea flower and withers;
he flees like a shadow and continues not.’

(verses 1-2)

I read this and it came to me that this statement is so much a part of our very reality as people, the fact is, is that we do not have long on this earth, we do not have much time, and  furthermore the time that we do have seems to fade away so quickly, that as soon as we blink another week has gone by, another month…….

This week I have noticed how the evenings would go buy so quickly, 8 hours would feel like 2 and behold another day had come and a new one was coming.

Time is a precious thing, it affords us so much, as I said to a friend this week we have, ’opportunities to know God more, to know the Word and to take advantage of life’s great opportunities’

The Psalmist said it like this in Psalm 103:15

‘As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field’

And so let us be encouraged this WEEKEND, this WEEK and for our LIVES, by the words of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 5, verses 15-17

‘Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.’

Let us glorify God with our time, what little we have let it be used most effectively!