TIME IS WONDERFUL! What Are You Doing With It?

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Ephesians 5:15-17.
Be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. 

Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in these evil days.  

Don’t act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lords wants you to do.

 

Charles Francis Adams, the 19th century political figure and diplomat, and son of John Quincy Adams and grandson of John
Adams, kept a diary.  He had a superb family lineage but perhaps not always the best concept of what was worthy of his time for one day he penned: “Went fishing with my son today.  A day wasted.” 

However, his son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is also still in  existence, and on that same day he made this entry, “Went fishing with my father.  The most wonderful day of my life!”

          And therein lies part of the problem.  Are we capable of judging what is worthless or worthwhile when it comes to the use of that precious commodity called time?  Do we too often misjudge what is important or not important at all?

Do we need, on a regular basis, to prayerfully run our daily schedule by the throne of grace?  A kind of godly filtering to keep our thinking straight.  A prayer something like , “Lord, help me not to waste my life and help me to know the difference” rather than foolishly frittering away precious life portions with little or no concern.

I’ve had an 83^rd birthday come up and like everyone else, I asked,

“Where did the time go?” But I also ask, “And what did I do with it while it was going?”

How much more earthly time do I have left?  I have no idea, but I do know that when one is young they feel they have forever to straighten their life out.

How did scripture begin… “Be careful how you live…”

          So consider, how do you live?  Carefully with thoughtfulness - or carelessly because you couldn’t care less?

 

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 "The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'

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"When it comes to invoking religion in support ofany of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian: Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle ofhumility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes: Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful studyofLincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics:'

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"Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's dear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character of his subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863:'

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