Thursday, October 3, 2019

Wasting

“Walk in wisdom … redeeming the time”
(Colossians 4:5).

In other words, “not wasting time, but using it wisely.”

In my home town of Smiths Falls, we have yellow plastic recycling bins. On those bins is the slogan, “Too good to waste.” This is to encourage us to recycle our used glass, tin, and plastic containers — rather than throwing them directly in the trash bucket.

Many of us live in a wasteful, throwaway society. We have so much that we think little of tossing food, clothing, and hardly-used items into the garbage, without any thought of preserving, mending, repairing or reusing. What we waste we can never recover — at least not fully.

One thing I tend to waste is time. Wasted time can never be recovered. The clock ticks consistently and relentlessly on — 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 168 hours in a week, and so on. Tick, tick, tick.

How are we using our time? Are we using it wisely? God has entrusted us with only so much time in this life, and we will have to give an account of how well we used it when we get to heaven and time for us ceases to be.