by Ivan Venter
7/30/2008 / Christian Living

It seems to me that the world is getting busier by the second. Everyone is running around trying to get a million things done by yesterday. This rat race as some has come to call it, has become a convenient excuse to neglect everything that is worthwhile and to spend more time on the things that has no real value in our lives.

It’s gotten to the point that kids has grown estranged to their parents, Spouses speak about five minutes a week in real conversation to each other, and children of God think that it’s normal to go through a whole week having spent less that fifteen minutes in prayer before God.

Keeping this in mind, we have to as God’s children and light to this world call a time out in our lives. There is simply too much at stake to let this hold on our lives grow and and grow to the point of no return.

The question ‘how?’ does however arise: ‘How do I get free form this rat race, that’s robbing me of my marriage, children and relationship with God?’

The answer to this can be found in Ephesians 5: 15 – 16 “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”

In other words, this verse simply says that we cannot let time walk by us unchecked and out of control. To understand it better, we can see time as a gift, given to every person by God to worship Him. We do however have a choice to let that gift slip through our fingers like dust in the air, or to take hold of it redeeming it by using it to glorify God.

To do this we have to nurture a no nonsense relationship with time, not letting one moment slip away into the abyss of things and acts that mean nothing, attributing to a life spent on the temporary and not on the eternal.

But to nurture this relationship with time in our lives we have to go to the source of every relationship and activity in our lives our minds. Our minds hold the key, and if we can manage to change our minds we will be able to redeem the time as Paul puts it.

We read in Philippians 4: 8 “Finally, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think on these things.”

Thus by turning our minds to God we start nurturing the no nonsense attitude with time that release us to do the things that holds the treasure’s that makes this life worth-while.

Hi I’m Ivan Venter and live in Potchefstroom South-Africa. I am currently doing my practical year to become a full time Pastor in the ministry. I love the Lord with all my heart and also want to serve Him in everything that I do.

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