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T ime has a way of scudding by like fast-moving clouds on a windy day. Minutes string into hours, hours into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, months into years. The transition is amazingly swift. Another day, another week, another month, another year. And on it goes at a breath-taking pace. A San Francisco advertising agency has for a motto, A ll that we have to sell is time and ideas. That’s good. Time and ideas are precious commod ities. St. Paul had something to say about time. In his letter to the Ephesians he says, “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Eph. 5:14-16). Redeeming the time. Redeeming fast-mov ing time. Of all people Christians have the greatest reason for redeeming time. God has given to Christians the great commission to Go y e into all the world, and
preach the gospel to every creature. For you who read this, today is the only unit of tune in which you can obey His command. Yesterday is gone forever. Tomorrow is forever tomorrow. Only today is yours. It is this day, this hour, this minute that is yours. Remember that you have the same amount of time as anyone. An Einstein or a Billy Graham is con fined to a 24-hour day just as you. It is not how much time but how well you use it that counts. Re deeming the time. He died to save men. But men will not know about the good news of salvation in Christ unless someone tells them. You can speak a word, write a letter, give out a tract. You and only you can do the work God has for you. There is much to do. Many before us have failed and many of us have failed in our lifetime. Now we can only work in whatever time that is left to us. Let us not make resolutions about doing. Let us do. It was Dr. John Mott who said, “ The work that cen turies might have done must crowd the hours of set ting sun.” e n d .
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