If you want to grow a beautiful relationship with Jesus, you need to know how to invest your time.
But that sounds so abstract, doesn’t it? Yet it’s something we need to do daily, so let’s make it more practical.
I’d like to share an acronym to help you see your time from an eternal perspective.
Today, I invite you to CLOCK your hours.
What do I mean by that?
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Consistent: You need daily effort to be intentional. Wise habits build a wise mind.
What are you putting in your mind, and how much time are you dedicating to guarding it?
Love: Whom and what you love determine how you spend your time.
What’s most important to you, and is it something that enhances your eternity or threatens it?
Observe: What you look at determines what you value.
Do you take the time to observe Jesus in the Gospels and how He lived? Can you see Him throughout the Bible and recognise how important He is?
Character: Becoming more like Jesus happens when you’re consistent in your love for Him and you take the time to observe Him daily. Your character reflects His character when you gaze into His face (2 Corinthians 3:18) and He dwells in your heart through faith (Ephesians 3:17).
Know: You know how fleeting and precious time is when you have an eternal perspective that honours time as wealth.
Psalm 90:12 says, “So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom”.
That phrase to number is the Hebrew word mānâ, which means “to weigh out; to appoint, count, number” (Strong’s H4487). We count or tally up our wealth, so if we see our days the same way, we’ll count them as well.
Why is it important to “number our days”? Because you’ll squander your time if you don’t, and you won’t have the wisdom to live in a way that pleases God and secures your eternity.
You need “a heart of wisdom” to live a victorious, consecrated life, and the only way to cultivate that heart is by filling it with the Word. You can’t be wise without the wisdom of God.
Ephesians 5:15-16 says, “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil”.
Redeeming here is the Greek word exagorazō, which means “to buy up; rescue from loss” and is “to make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good, so that zeal and well doing are as it were the purchase money by which we make the time our own” (Strong’s G1805).
In other words, you buy back the time you have when you invest it in the Kingdom, and this investment leads to true riches. The Bible talks about storing up treasure where no moth or thief can reach it (Matthew 6:19-20; Luke 12:21), and these eternal riches are mined from your time in the Word and your response to what you read.
You number your days when you CLOCK your hours. You redeem the time when you CLOCK your hours. And you invest your time when you CLOCK your hours.
Treating your time like wealth teaches you to live differently, to “walk circumspectly” (Ephesians 5:15) because you have “a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12).
In the end, you don’t CLOCK your hours because you’re a boring person who doesn’t know how to live life and have fun.
You CLOCK your hours because this is the only life you have to prepare for eternity. Your life is fleeting and precious, and eternity is infinite and priceless.
Knowing the power you have to choose, what are you choosing today?
I pray that you choose Jesus today.
I pray that you choose to invest your time in growing a beautiful relationship with Him and deepening your roots in His Word.
I pray that His wisdom, His love, and His peace cover you as you go through your day.
And I pray that your life is a testimony of how good He is, how kind He is, and how awesome He is. In Jesus’s Name, amen.
Amen, thank you Otiti for this reminder 🙏
Hi, Blessy! You’re welcome! I thank God for helping me start to see my time differently.
Thank you for reading! 🤗🙏🏾