How Do You Pass the Time Away?

Ken and Ted occupied adjoining hospital beds. Everyone who came to visit them asked the same question: "How do you pass your time away?" The answer to this question lay on their bed tables.

Ken's table was piled with comic books and a radio. The radio was turned on all the time, making some kind of noise. Ted's table contained his schoolbooks, notebooks, and pencils. Ken was bored to death. Ted was never ready to turn out the light and go to sleep at night. There weren't enough hours in his day.

Time is God's most "tricky" gift to us. Even though it never stops for one second sometimes it seems to move very slowly and at other times it goes too fast. But it can be speeded up or held back. All the gold and silver in the world cannot buy the time it takes to bat your eye. Yet time is God's most wasted gift.

On Monday morning we count the hours until Friday afternoon. We "can hardly wait" until our next birthday. We count the days until Christmas. We merely exist for the few days or hours before our vacation. Most people are always looking forward to the next season or planing how next year will be better.

How we spend our time is very important. It is not ours, either; it is God's. God makes us a loan of time, and we must give him an account of how we used it. We live each day because God lets us live. It is not our business to "kill" time, but to use every moment of it. There will never be another minute like right now. Enjoy it to the full.

"So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom" (Psalm 90:12).