Just a minute!!
In last week’s ‘Thought’ we spoke about our gifts from God, so what about the other way round, our gift to Him?
In this age of technology where virtually everything is done on screen, whether it is a computer or phone, it is easy to use up time. Dare I ask how many of you spend time on games, scrolling You Tube videos or Tik Tok and other platforms and then wonder where the time has gone? Maybe you ‘Facebook’ and always have your phone in your hand or pocket, just in case a message comes through, and so you live with your phone beside you. Now I’m sure all these things are great, but don’t they just take up a lot of our effort and time.
Did you know that in every week there are 10,080 minutes, maybe that information isn’t exactly high on your list of priorities, but it is a fact. That equates to 1,440 minutes each day. It sounds quite a lot, but just think about this; they are minutes given to you every day and they are minutes we can’t get back, when they’re gone, they’re gone.
So the thought for this week is simply: God gives us all these minutes each day and week and I wonder how well we use this God-given time. (We don’t need answers on a postcard for that one!) You see, you know how well or not, you use your time. Every morning is a new day and we are given the gift of time, and as the Psalmist says in Psalm 90, “Surprise us with Your love at daybreak; then we’ll skip and dance all the day long” (Message Bible).
What we do with our time, is our gift back to Him.