Time Spent

If you were to ask most people; what is the most valuable thing they can offer? My guess is that the answer you would get would be Time. Why is time so valuable? Time is so valuable to man that we created a way to keep up with how much time there is in a day. This is yet another way for us to keep up with how valuable this unseen commodity is to us. Again though I bet if you asked a group of people, how much free time do you have? My guess again would be not a single one would have time to spare. We spend time faster than we spend money. There is no saving up of time, as a matter of fact we invent things like time management just so we can try and save a little bit of time. In the end though we still do not have any time left over. Then what do we do? We look towards time when we think we will have time, like days off or we might even take a vacation because we think we can have more time. The truth is no matter what we do to try and add more time to our lives and our days it is always going to come up short. Another truth is that we try and justify all this time we use up by saying things like, I am working towards a better future so I work late, long hours, I want my kids to have a full life so we have them involved in recreational activities or we say when I get to where I want to be financially and the kids get a little older I will have more time for other things. The truth sadly those days never come and you wake up and life has passed you by and those around you are always to busy to have any time for you either. I do not think that we were to ever measure time as minutely as we do today. I think James says it well "13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”(James 4:13-15). It is good we work for all this time and put effort out to makes better lives financially for our loved ones, but we are only here for such a small amount of time. If we turn our focus on God, I am betting that those late hours and the things we fill our days up with will seem so unimportant and those that are waiting on us will be much happier in life because you were there. What legacy will you leave behind to the ones that look up to and love you?