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MAXIMIZING TIME 1.

"... Make the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil... " - Ephesians 5:16

The worst use of time, is spending it so diligently, doing something very well which has no value soever for and in eternity. This position is not an attempt to support the sacred-secular antithesis, on the contrary, if there ever was a diametric opposition to the sacred-secular antithesis, it would be this. For there is only one way possible to maximize fleeting time, and that is to rather than live a divided life, sum up all aspects of life into one, and live a unified life. By living a unified life, we mean simply "do not divide your life or time into the secular time for "yourself" and the sacred time for "the Lord", rather sum up everything about your life and make it the Lord's. This is the only sure way to maximize time, for then all we do even eating and drinking, would be done as unto the Lord (1 Cor 10:31), for there's nothing that cannot be done as unto the Lord, and whatsoever cannot proudly be done as unto the Lord, is shameful and deserves not to be done at all, for such is sin. However, if eating and drinking, such bodily cares which according to Tozer, we share in common with the beast (animals) that perish, could be done as unto the Lord? Then we see, the only thing that may never be elevated up to the level of sacredness is Sin and whatsoever thing that is sinful. Thus anything that may not be worth doing unto the Lord, is not worth doing at all, in the first place. And everything that is worthy of time is best worthwhile done unto the Lord. How does this work? A couple of ways, again it begins from our hearts, let the Lord God be the motive to any and every thought, idea, desire, pursuit. Immediately, that thought, desire, idea, becomes holy, sacred unto the Lord. For holiness is of the Lord, it is the Lord that makes Holy. There are no holy days, no holy places, no holy individuals, without the Lord. If a man consecrates his home to the Lord, and the Lord sanctifies it, then that house becomes a holy place. It is not were two or three are gathered that defines a church for instance, but where two or three are gathered IN THE LORD'S NAME. That is the only way it works, our entirety can be given to the Lord, for his diverse use and purposes. And at different settings he uses what parts he chooses. Thus,it begins there, with the offering of ourselves unto the Lord, and understanding the entire implications of that transaction. It means he owns everything, our time, our money (all of it, not a sheer tithe of it), he owns everything. Of course he is a loving and caring father, who gladly even enjoins us to use even of what is his for our own pleasure (cf. Deut. 14:22-27), yes, but the beginning of it all is the heart transaction. All must be given to him for they're rightly his, or he would have none at all. So, be it our studies, our associations, our conversations, our rest or sleep, our recreations, and recreations, our jobs, everything, let us bring them up to the level of sacredness and watch the Lord maximize every second of our lives, does not the scriptures say of sleep, that the Lord gives his beloved beautiful sleep? Then why would we view any areas of our life any less. God made time, and he only controls both time and eternity, what better way to maximize time other than to have all activities done in time masterminded by the creator of Time, and that is where we would continue in the consequent parts- Practical considerations and Wisdom for the times.

"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble... " -Job 14:1.

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