Waste!

Time is a crazy thing. No matter what we do, we can never add another minute to a day. We can shuffle things and activities around, cut out TV, sleep less, even brush our teeth in the shower to save time (it works), but no matter what, there are never going to be more than 24 hours in a day. No wonder people can be so impatient in the line at the grocery store, or speeding from place to place in the car. No wonder the Internet is so huge. I mean in the matter of a second you can find information about anything. IM’ing is huge because you don’t have to wait for the person to get your email or your letter. What you want to say is in their grill in a second and their response is expected immediately. No wonder we text in class when we are supposed to be learning. It all comes down to not wanting to waste our time. In traffic, in class, in conversation we don’t want a second to go by without doing something. The problem is that though we are active as much as possible we still spend our time doing things that never really pan out. Have you ever wasted your time? Maybe it was in a movie that had all the promise in the previews but once you paid your 10 bucks and sat in the theater, the movie was lacking in humor, action or overall content. Maybe you wasted time waiting for a friend to show up someplace and they never came. Maybe you spent so much time practicing for the try out and didn’t get the part or make the team. Maybe you spent 3 months with a boyfriend or girlfriend and then you broke-up and you feel like it was all a waste. Maybe you tried so hard to get your parents to love each other again and it just didn’t work. There are a lot of things that we can do that seem like a waste. A lot of things we can do in vain. Never seeing a reward, never accomplishing the task…. I have a friend who is retired. He spent his whole life working hard to attain financial security. He spent many years setting himself up to retire. Whenever I talk with him, though wealthy, I can’t help but sense an underground feeling in his heart that he wasted a lot of his life on things that just didn’t matter. I bet if you sat down with your parents and talked about their lives, they would say the same thing about certain decisions they have made as well. As a teenager you are still making decisions about what you are going to do with your life, both in the future and today.
Read I Cor 15:58-
What is promised not to be a waste of time? Journal your thoughts or respond to this post