TIME IS SHORT; THE VALUE OF TIME

3/14/25 6:57 PM
Mark R. Peterson
LifeintheSpirit.net

Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you failed to use during the day.

What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course! Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.

There is no going back. There is no drawing against “tomorrow”.
You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to
get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success! The clock is
running, so MAKE THE MOST OF TODAY.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who has failed a
grade.
To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth
to a pre-mature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask an editor of a weekly
newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer who has
kids to feed.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to
meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who has missed
the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who has avoided
an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND, ask the person who has
won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because
you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with them.
And remember that TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE.

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift. That’s why it’s called THE PRESENT.

And finally, what happens WHEN WE RUN OUT OF TIME? We will be standing before the sovereign, living God of the universe, and asked why we did not choose Jesus as our Lord and Savior, even though we had many opportunities to do so? We will be staring at two paths into eternity and our course will already be set – to join the heavenly host or head for the Lake of Fire.

So let us seek the Lord with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, for time is short, eternity is a very long time, and we are not guaranteed tomorrow.

P.S. Speaking of RUNNING OUT OF TIME, be sure to check out this blog post: “If You Took the Vax, Your Health is in Danger (PART I)”. You see it here: https://bit.ly/IfYouTooktheVaxPARTI.

To God be the glory
LifeintheSpirit.net

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