TAKE HEED: HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR TIME?
By Wade Martin Hughes Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
Did you hear about the person that needed a longer blanket?
They cut off the top of the blanket and sowed it to the bottom?
Now how much longer is the blanket?
PEOPLE SEEM TO KEEP MINUTES AND WASTE HOURS...
James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life?
It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
The last words of Queen Elizabeth I:
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Time is like money, you can only spend it once?
YOU HAVE A MINUTE? (Unknown)
You have only just one minute,
Only sixty seconds in it.
Forced upon me--- can't refuse it.
But it is up to you to use it.
You must suffer it or lose it.
GIVE ACCOUNT IF YOU ABUSE IT.
Just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it.
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I. IN HEAVEN AND ETERNITY THE ANGELS DO NOT UDERSTAND TIME...
CAN WE SEE THE OBVIOUS AND DISCERN AND UNDERSTAND...
A. Linda and I have a COO COO CLOCK. We always stop and count as the bird sings.
One day the bird came out, one, two, three .... eight, nine, ten, ... twelve, thirteen, fourteen...
twenty, twenty one, twenty two... twenty nine, thirty, thirty one...
I SAID: LINDA, IT IS LATER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN BEFORE...
B. TIME IS A LIMITED THING...
ONE DAY THE CLOCKS WILL STOP FOR YOU...
Matthew 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and
lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the
signs of the times?
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Matthew 16:3 and in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.'
You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs
of the times.
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Matthew 16:3 red sky in the morning means foul weather all day--but you can't read the
obvious signs of the times!
II. WHAT IS TIME?
Psalm 90: [4] For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and
as a watch in the night.
[5] Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are
like grass which groweth up.
[6] In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
A. What is time?
The shadow on a sun dial?
Is it sand falling through an hour glass?
Is it the ticking second hand going around and around?
Is time light and darkness?
Is time weeks and months?
Is time seasons of cold and hot?
COULD TIME BE THE LIFE OF THE SOUL?
B. WHAT DOES GOD VALUE AND THING IMPORTANT?
GOD CREATED TIME.
TIME IS GOD'S GIFT TO YOU...
ALL OF GOD'S OTHER GIFTS ARE CONDITIONAL UPON TIME...
WHAT YOU DO WITH GOD'S TIME IS YOUR GIFT BACK TO HIM...
C. TIME AND TROUBLE ARE GOD'S TOOLS TO BUILD HIS PEOPLE....
III. GOD HAS BEEN NICE TO US... IF OUR DAYS WERE 1,000 YEARS, AND WE
LIVED TO BE 70... IF WE MESSED UP TODAY--- WE WOULD BE FOREVER DOOMED.
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
A. GOD CREATED TIME...
GOD MADE
SECONDS
A MINUTE... 60 SECONDS
HOURS... 60 MINUTES
DAY... 24 HOURS, 1440 MINUTES...
B.If we mess up today, we can change it...
TOMORROW WE WILL HAVE A FRESH START...
C. We change our lives: ONE DAY AT A TIME...
IV. GOD NEVER LOADS THE WEIGHT OF TOMORROW ON TODAY...
MANY ARE KILLING THEIR TIME WORRYING ABOUT TOMORROW...
TOMORROW BURDEN ADDS TO THE WEIGHT OF TODAY...
A. TODAY IS THE TOMORROW YOU WORRIED ABOUT YESTERDAY...
Matthew 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
[29] And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
[30] Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into
the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
[31] Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal
shall we be clothed?
[32] (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things.
[33] But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added
unto you.
[34] Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
V. THINK YOU CAN CALL A TIME OUT? YOU CAN NOT KILL TIME AND NOT INJURE
YOURSELF AND GOD.
GOD WARNS US ABOUT THE PROPER US OF TIME... TIME WAITS FOR NO MAN
Eccles. 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
[2] A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
[3] A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
[4] A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
[5] A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a
time to refrain from embracing;
[6] A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
[7] A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
[8] A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
[9] What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
VI. DEATH IS SURE... YOU HAVE AN APPOINTMENT MADE MY FRIEND...
A. LIFE IS SHORT AT BEST...
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
B. YOU HAVE AN APPOINTMENT SET...
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
VII. MAN HAS THER TIME TO DO ALL THE THINGS HE REALLY WANTS TO DO...
YOU WILL FIND TIME TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE... THERE IS A CORRELATION BETWEEN
YOUR MOUTH AND TIME?
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
[35] A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man
out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
[36] But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the day of judgment.
[37] For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
A. THE BEST THING TO SPEND ON YOUR KIDS IS TIME...
B. Why waste time thinking up excuses, spend your time doing and avoiding the need to
make excuses.
AT BEST LIFE IS BRIEF...
I have always said if I were a doctor, I would send every new patient for a test.
When they returned from the test, I would tell them...
YOU ARE TERMINAL... FOR YOU SEE EVERY PERSON YOU KNOW IS TERMINAL...
A. Time changes things...
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
B. KILLING TIME IS NOT MURDER, IT IS SUICIDE...
Eccles. 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not,
nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
C. YOUTH COUNT TIME, WISE PEOPLE MAKE TIME COUNT...
D. Seems we have more TIME SAVING DEVICES than ever in history...
and YET WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME?
F. The little boy came to his Grandfather and said:
PAW, Can a person live a perfect all his live?
After a brief time to think, Paw answered, NO!
Grandson again asked: Can you live a perfect life for a year?
NO! replied the Grandfather.
How about a month? The lad asked.
NO! It is impossible.
A week? The boy enquired.
NO! NO! was the quick answer.
How about a day? Asked the grandson.
The Grandfather thought a while and bowed his head and answered: NO!
The little boy said: PAW, HOW ABOUT A MOMENT, COULD A PERSON LIVE
A GOOD LIFE FOR A MOMENT?
The Grandfather smiled and said: MAYBE? MAYBE GRANDSON?
The boy looked his grandfather in the eyes and said:
PAW, I WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE MOMENT BY MOMENT...2
G. What you love you will find time to do...
SHOW ME HOW YOU SPEND YOUR MONEY?
SHOW ME WHERE YOU SPEND YOUR TIME?
Seems today man has too much time on his hands and not enough on his knees.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
Help my hands reach more? Pass it on?
