Purpose of our TIME

"The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians 3:18 that what we look at, spend our time on, is what we will become. (So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. NLT).

Q: How many of us have actually thought of time as being a talent? 

Our time on this earth is limited. 

It is a probationary time to be used specifically for character development. 

Time spent is time gone. 

There is no other talent of which God requires a more strict account.

 

And as we draw nearer and nearer to His second coming, that simply means less time to get ready, maybe even not enough time. 

Q: So, on what are we spending our time?

 

If we gaze even a moment upon the sun in its meridian glory, when we turn away our eyes, the image of the sun will appear in everything upon which we look. 

Thus it is when we behold Jesus; everything we look upon reflects His image, the Sun of Righteousness. We cannot see anything else, or talk of anything else. His image is imprinted upon the eye of the soul, and affects every portion of our daily life, softening and subduing our whole nature. 

By beholding, we are conformed to the divine similitude, even the likeness of Christ. 

 

Q: How much time have we spent and will never have back?

 “… time squandered can never be recovered. We cannot call back even one moment." (E.G.W.)

 

John 15:4–6 says, “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

 I am the vine, you are the branches. 

He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”

 Judy Rebarchek/StepsToLife