Life is a gift from God; It is not ours to waste

When we gave our life over to him, we didn’t just give half of ourselves to him and then keep the rest for our own entertainment. We didn’t give half of each of our days to him. We gave it all. We have died to ourselves; we have crucified our flesh, and have offered it completely up to the LORD to be used as he wants. That means every moment of everyday is HIS. That means every word that comes out of our mouths need to be glorifying to him. That means every thought that we dwell upon needs to be pleasing to HIM. We are not our own, we are HIS. Therefore we should not act as if we own ourselves, indulging ourselves into things that only gratify the flesh and not the Spirit. We need to be living for HIM. We can’t be wasting time on things that will keep us from serving God. We can’t be spending our time thinking about things that are of ourselves and not of GOD. There is a lost world around us, and we have been called to be a light. We cannot be consumed by ourselves and instead need to be saturated with God and His Word. Everything we do should be to further God’s Kingdom and bring glory and praise to HIM. Each and every minute of life that we have is a gift from the God of heaven. Remember the parable about how God will expect more from the man that he has given much to than from the one he has given little to. I have always thought about this in more of a material sense, but think of this parable for a second from the perspective of the gift being life. From the man that he has given more life to, from him more will be expected. Each minute is a gift from God, and each minute belongs to God. If we have truly given ourselves up completely to him that means that we are taking every minute that he has given to us to glorify him and for furthering his kingdom. What do we spend our time thinking about? How many minutes are we taking from him and using for our own fleshly satisfaction instead of his glory? How many minutes do we spend glorifying ourselves or other people instead of glorifying God? Let us not be receiving each of these gracious and loving gifts from God, and using them for ourselves. Let us use them for God’s name sake; anything else is a waste of time.