In Time
Did you get the chance to see In Time? It was a 2011 flick, starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, they live in a world where time is the ultimate currency. In the movie they paid for everything with time, when you ran out of time, your life did too.
What if that was the world we lived in? What would your life look like, where would your time go?
Now that my time has become a little more valuable I have been convicted of how I spend it. 56 is the number. 56 days until I leave everything and everyone to spend 11 months with my new family, sharing God’s word in 11 countries. So now everyday means more, every hour is more precious, and I haven’t been using them that way.
You may be the same as me, struggling to be a better steward of what God has given you- maybe that’s money or time, gifts or talents. Our world has told us our whole lives what we need to buy into and give our time to, which most of the time is distraction. Distraction has become the norm, our coping mechanism; it has become comfortable and easy to buy into things that help us forget reality. For me it’s been watching a show over writing a blog, hanging with friends instead of seeking God on fundraising, spending money versus putting it into the race. It’s comfortable and easy.
These things are not bad.
These things become bad when, they are put above what God has for us, or when they become a tool to avoid things we don’t want to do or go through.
That is what I have been convicted of, using friends, work, tv or other things to fill my precious time left in the U.S.
One thing that God has spoken to me so much is end well. He spoke that to me through mentors at CTX, through friends at Bethany, and now through his spirit.
What does it look like for me to end well at home, work, and with friends and family? What and who needs my time, how should I spend these 56 ish days?
I don’t even need to ask. I know I need to be spending time seeking God. I need to ask him what this should look like and I should be reading his word. I need to spend time sharing my feelings, worries, and fears here, where people who care can read and pray. I need to be calling friends and supporters asking for specific gifts, gear, and funds to make next year possible.
I need to be obedient.
I need to be a better steward of the currency of time.
My time is not my own.
How have you been spending your time? Is it worthy of your precious minutes? There may not be a 56 ish day deadline in your life, but your days are precious. God has something big for each one of those days!
Are you missing out on that?
Make your days worth it. Don’t waste the time you have been given. Use them for his glory, and seek his will for your life.
