How Are You Spending Your Time?
What are you doing with your time ⌛? Are you wasting your time?
📱 Doomscrolling? 😴 Over Sleeping? 🎮 Excessive Video Gaming? 🛜 Aimless Browsing? 🖥️ Screen Shopping-addicted? 💹 Day trading? 💰 Overworking? Stop! 🛑
There's a reason why most believers are carried away doing useless things. The main reason is a lack of knowledge about their identity in Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 5:15-16 - [15] He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will LIVE FOR CHRIST, who died and was raised for them. [16] So we have STOPPED EVALUATING others from a HUMAN POINT OF VIEW…
Firstly, as believers, we no longer live for ourselves, but for Christ.
Secondly, we don't think according to the human point of view. But a heavenly, eternal point of view.
Many think they have to be successful in the world to live for Jesus - it’s a human point of view, not corroborated by Scripture. We can extrapolate information from the OT (Natural man) to try and prove it, but the NT (spiritual) focus is purely on living for Jesus and letting God bless us materially, financially and physically as He chooses.
"I got a job with a big company when I asked God to give me more time with Him. Not only did I get more time, but I got a lot of money too. I did not have the skills or capability for the role. But God made it happen."
WHAT IS THE HUMAN POINT OF VIEW?
Earthly focused on eating, drinking, shelter, career, etc. under the bondage of the spirit of money
Spiritually bound - fear of death, hopeless, opinionated, selfish, etc.
Family is everything (blood).
As believers, we are kingdom seekers - resting in God’s righteousness, as He provides all our earthly needs.
We are spiritually set free from the sting of death. Hopeful and joyful in the finished work of Jesus on the cross.
Finally, because time is short, Paul reminds us to live as if we are unmarried (1 Corinthians 7:29) and unitedly, as a couple, give more time to God.
Dear child of God, this life in Christ is the best gift. Prepare yourself to meet Jesus. Maranatha, Praise God, and Amen.
