New “Bank” Account Daily
If you had a bank that credited your
account each morning with $86,400, that carried no balance from day to day,
allowed you to keep no cash in your account, and finally every evening
canceled whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day.
What would you do? Draw out every cent—of course!
Well, you have such a bank and its name is
“Time.” Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it
rules off—as lost—whatever of this you had failed to invest to good
purpose. It carries no balances. It allows no balances. It allows no
overdrafts. Each day the bank named “Time” opens a new account with you.
Each night it burns the records of the day. If you fail to use the day’s
deposits the loss is yours. —Robert G. Lee[1]
There are many things about our
celebration of Christmas that come from spiritual truth.
There is a striking difference in our modern celebration of the first
coming from the reality of the second coming of the King of kings. The difference is the fact that we don’t know the time or
the day that He will come again. I
can remember waiting impatiently for Christmas morning to come to open the
gifts that awaited me under the Christmas tree.
I knew the time. But do we
await the second coming of the King with such enthusiasm?
Scripture
Text:
Romans 13:11 And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has
come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now
than when we first believed. 12
The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the
deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and
drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and
jealousy. 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not
think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.
Do you understand the time? What time do you think it is?
How much time do you have left? Time
flies. How much time is left?
Time is ticking away.
What Time Is It?
V. 12 The
night is nearly over; the day is almost here.
What day is it? The day of
the Lord is almost here. Our time
of our meeting with the Lord is almost come.
1.
Time to wake up. Open
our eyes to the importance of the time we have all been given and get up.
Don’t waste our time with the world in revelry.
2.
Time to stand up. Stand
up for the Lord and realize that He is the way, the truth, and the life. He is calling us to Him.
Stand up and come over to the Lord’s side of life.
Here the bugle call to wake up. It
is time to get up, time to get up in the morning.
3.
Time to repent. Standing
up for the Lord shows that we have made a decision to live for Him. We no longer live for ourselves and the pleasures of the
world. We turn to Him and stop
living a life of sin.
4.
Time to get dressed in the armor of light.
Get involved with the army of light.
Live with those who are serving the Lord in his army, soldiers of the
cross.
5.
Time to live the life. Time to live like
Jesus. No more talk only.
Time to put on Jesus. Don’t
wait to make decisions for the Lord. This
is our gift to Him.
6.
Time to think about the Lord and prepare for His coming.
We are preparing for Christmas when we
remember His first coming, so then should we not remember and prepare for the
return? Time to remember that He
came the first time. He lived and
died and rose from the dead. Time
to remember he is coming again. Are
you ready for Christmas II?
7.
Time to remember that time is running out.
It is an urgent call to us to wake up.
Clock Of Life
The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To say just when the hands will stop;
At late, or early hour.
Now is the only time we own
to do His precious will,
Do not wait until tomorrow;
For the clock may then be still.
—Selected[2]
“Thomas Carlyle called life "a
little gleam of time between two eternities," and Seneca said, "As a
tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is."
n
Robert C. Shannon, 1000 Windows, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Standard
Publishing Company, 1997). From
Bible Illustrator.
The devil doesn't care how much we do, as
long as we don't do it today.
-- Croft M. Pentz, The Complete Book of Zingers (Wheaton: Tyndale House
Publishers, Inc., 1990). From
Bible Illustrator.
No one should ever be too busy or pressured or tired to make a time and
place for God in their lives. After all, he has to manage the whole world, and
he's never too busy for us. --
Sadie and Bessie Delany, Christian Reader, Vol. 33, no. 2.
from Bible Illustrator.