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Introduction
How often we think about time and how we have wasted it.
How it has just slipped through our hands like water.
Time is significant because it is so rare.
It is completely irretrievable.
You can never repeat it or relive it.
There is no such thing as a literal instant replay.
That appears only on film.
It travels alongside us every day, yet it has eternity wrapped up in it.
Although this is true, time often seems relative, doesn’t it?
For example, two weeks on a vacation is not at all like two weeks on a diet.
Also, some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week!
Ben Franklin said of time, “… that is the stuff life is made of.”
Time forms life’s building blocks.
The philosopher William James once said, “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
The significance of time is why it is so important on how we spend it.
Let me play the devil’s advocate and give ways of how to waste time.
Ways that many of us do waste our time.
Swindoll’s Ultimate Book of Illustrations & Quotes (Time)
Five proven ideas come immediately to mind: First, worry a lot.
Start worrying early in the morning and intensify your anxiety as the day passes.
Second, make hard-and-fast predictions.
For example, one month before his July 1975 disappearance, Jimmy Hoffa announced: “I don’t need bodyguards.”
Third, fix your attention on getting rich.
You’ll get a lot of innovative ideas from the secular bookshelves, plus you’ll fit right in with most of the hype pouring out of entrepreneurial seminars and high-pressure sales meetings.
Fourth, compare yourself with others.
Now, here’s another real time-waster.
If it’s physical fitness you’re into, comparing yourself with [The Rock or Meagan Martin], or comparing yourself with Trevor Brazille, Billy Etbaur, or Hailey Kinzel ought to keep you busy.
Fifth, lengthen your list of enemies.
If there’s one thing above all others that will keep your wheels spinning, it’s perfecting your skill at the Blame Game.
Put these five surefire suggestions in motion and you will set new records in wasting valuable time.
Time past is gone.
Tomorrow is not promised.
Today is what you have.
Right now is what you have use it—invest it in the right things.
Let us read the text, Ephesians 5:15-17
In this text we first see that we should...
Walk in Wisdom (v.
15)
When we use God’s time wisely we walk in wisdom.
When we walk in wisdom we are imitating God as His children (v.1).
All children at one point seek to imitate their dad.
When we do we walk in love.
We imitate because we love the one we are imitating.
When imitating God we imitate Christ and sacrificially give ourselves away (v.2).
Walking in wisdom avoids sexual immorality, impurity, and covetousness.
When in wisdom we will not even allow those thoughts in (v.3).
We will avoid all filthy and foolish talk and all nasty jokes (v.4).
Why?
Because those who do that have no inheritance in the kingdom (v.5).
Unbelievers do not have a claim on the kingdom.
They are the ones who act this way.
We are saved, cleansed by the blood of Christ, why would we want to act in a way of those who have no inheritance in the kingdom?
We do not if we are seizing the opportunity and walking in wisdom.
That type of living and actions are impure and vile to God.
It is also idolatry (v.5).
It is because we are saying that we know what is better for us than God does.
We are saying we are God because we know better.
That is idolatry.
Covetousness is definitely idolatry.
It is because when you covet you desire the object and no matter what you will have one.
It becomes your God and rules you to the destruction of all around you.
When we are seizing the opportunities God places before us and walking in wisdom we do not allow for anyone to deceive us.
We do not permit them to speak lies to us or into us.
By doing such we avoid God’s wrath that is for the sons of disobedience.
This wrath is “God’s strong indignation directed at wrong doing.”
When walking in wisdom and striving to use our time to God’s glory we can avoid this.
We avoid being involved with people who act and speak in these ways.
We take the gospel to them but we do not join them in their activities.
This is what Paul meant in 2 Corinthians 6:14 “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers.
For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness?
Or what fellowship has light with darkness?”
When he said we were not to be unequally yoked to unbelievers, we do not join with them because they are not in the flock and not partakers of the kingdom.
We defile ourselves when we join up with them.
We know what it was like to be there.
We were once darkness and just like them.
We were lovers of self and of wickedness.
Yet, we have been made free and brought into the light.
Why would we want to go back to that?
Why live that way again?
It is crazy to think like that.
We are light now and as light we need to shine it so, “that they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven” (Matt.
5:16).
When walking and acting in wisdom we are seeking to discern what is pleasing to God, not falling into the ways of the world.
When seeking to walk in wisdom we are seeking to please God by using something that is a part of Him and that is:
“Better than gold; even fine gold, and the yield is better than choice silver” (Prov.
8:19).
We see that wisdom was before the beginning of the earth (Prov.
8:23).
This means wisdom is a part of God and is made available to us.
With wisdom we are blessed (Prov.
8:32).
And when we find wisdom we find life (Prov.
8:35).
Wisdom is of God and it will guide us and allow us to know what God desires.
Some of that is having no part in unfruitful works, but exposing them.
Bringing forth the shameful things that those of the world do in the dark, in their secret places.
We know that God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil (Eccl.
12:14).
Light removes darkness.
It exposes whatever is in the dark.
Many people do things in secret because it is shameful to do them in the light.
When we walk in wisdom discerning what is pleasing to God, we bring to light all that is wicked and corrupt.
Doing such we may be alone, at least we think we are alone, we are never alone if believers.
We have the Spirit of God dwelling in us.
But we have so much more than this.
When we are faithful and serving God we have His power all around us.
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