The Mystery of Time - Part 4
Going on autopilot, that is what I used to call it. Thats when you go about your day without really thinking about anything. Often, it results in a lot of wasted time that could have been better served doing something that would bring you closer to the Lord. It might mean that you stop during the day to talk to Him in prayer, or that you might take a piece of scripture and mull it over in your mind. Instead, you don't take the time for either of those activities and you just "putter around". What does the Lord think when we don't use our time wisely? Is He upset with us? Do we have to go through a lesson in objectivity in order to get closer to Him? I don't think that He is necessarily upset with us but we have indeed wasted opportunity to get closer to Him. I go back to the verse that I have read before:
[Hosea 4:6] My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
The context of this verse is one in which the Lord had a controversy with Israel in that they forgot Him and decided to go their own way. The Lord is upset here because they abandoned His ways and did not seek Him out. The same is true of us today. We for the most part spend our time in pursuit of those things counter to what the Lord has for our lives. He seeks our good, but yet by not keeping in touch with Him, we fail to realize our true potential. So it is important that during those times that we are "doing nothing" that we concentrate instead on our relationship with Him. Not only does this set us on our right course, but it affords us the opportunity to let Him know of our hearts deepest desires.
[2 Thess 1:10] when He comes to be glorified *in His *saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed—for our testimony to you was believed. [11] To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will *count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power, [12] so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
As we spend more time with Him we find that there is more that we will marvel about. This finds its fulfillment on the day in which the Lord returns. Seems like I have to get my act together now and keep closer to the Lord at all times.
- LW
[Hosea 4:6] My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
The context of this verse is one in which the Lord had a controversy with Israel in that they forgot Him and decided to go their own way. The Lord is upset here because they abandoned His ways and did not seek Him out. The same is true of us today. We for the most part spend our time in pursuit of those things counter to what the Lord has for our lives. He seeks our good, but yet by not keeping in touch with Him, we fail to realize our true potential. So it is important that during those times that we are "doing nothing" that we concentrate instead on our relationship with Him. Not only does this set us on our right course, but it affords us the opportunity to let Him know of our hearts deepest desires.
[2 Thess 1:10] when He comes to be glorified *in His *saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed—for our testimony to you was believed. [11] To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will *count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power, [12] so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
As we spend more time with Him we find that there is more that we will marvel about. This finds its fulfillment on the day in which the Lord returns. Seems like I have to get my act together now and keep closer to the Lord at all times.
- LW