It’s Your Time
It’s here—2024! Can you believe it? How quickly time passes. Before we know it, this new year will be in record books, too!
Time is an interesting thing. It is our most significant, non-renewal resource. It’s a gift that can’t be replenished. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. That’s why it’s so important to use it well.
This is what Paul, the apostle, was talking about when he wrote these words:
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. —Ephesians 5:15-16 (NIV)
The Amplified Bible reads this way:
Therefore see that you walk carefully [living life with honor, purpose, and courage; shunning those who tolerate and enable evil], not as the unwise, but as wise [sensible, intelligent, discerning people], making the very most of your time [on earth, recognizing and taking advantage of each opportunity and using it with wisdom and diligence], because the days are [filled with] evil. —Ephesians 5:15-16 (AMP)
Note the phrases “making the most of every opportunity” and “making the very most of your time.”
One of the keywords in both of these versions is “making.” Something “made” is created, fashioned, or produced by someone. It is the result of intentional decisions and actions.
Here, we’re instructed to “make the most” of our “opportunities” or “time.” There are two Greek words often translated as time—chronos and kairos.
“Chronos” is the minutes, days, weeks, and years marked by a clock or calendar. We’re referring to it when we ask, “What time is it?” Or “What’s today’s date?” This is “chronos,” from which we get our word “chronology.”
However, Paul chose another word to describe time. He told us to “make the most of our kairos.” “Kairos” refers to the content or opportunities wrapped in any moment. We speak of it when we say, “I had a good time.” It is about your experience in a moment.
What’s the point? Paul reminds us that time is a gift and a resource that can be wasted or invested. In each of our seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years are opportunities waiting to be mined, needing to be carefully harvested. What we do with our time determines what happens with our lives!
In this new year, you’re given a gift called time. It’s yours to do with as you wish. But what you do with it matters. Don’t let time slip away from you. Make the most of it in 2024!
Pastor Dale
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