{"id":338440,"date":"2023-06-28T15:59:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T19:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=338440"},"modified":"2023-11-16T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T15:41:59","slug":"what-have-you-been-doing-with-your-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/what-have-you-been-doing-with-your-time\/","title":{"rendered":"What Have You Been Doing With Your Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How have you been enjoying every minute of your day? Some people think they lack time. They want more hours to handle all their activities, but is this the problem? Or is it the mismanagement of tasks that makes time insufficient?<\/span>
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\n<\/span>The book of Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, <\/span>
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\n<\/span>\u201cTo everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

People believe that staying two hours in church and listening to the Word of God is too long. Yet they can spend two hours scrolling through Instagram or gossiping about the lives of others.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How Much Time Do You Take to Value the Lord Jesus?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Some people prioritize honoring their family, work, friends, parties, school, fame, money etc. But, they neglect the indispensable, the Lord Jesus. Time and priority go hand in hand. What people do with your free moments reveals a lot about themselves. They demonstrate the place God occupies in their life.<\/span><\/p>\n

God is the base that sustains all of a person\u2019s achievements and gives us strength in times of struggle. Therefore, those who do not dedicate time to Him risk seeing all their effort fall apart at the slightest sign of instability in life.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNow is the opportunity for you to get closer to the Lord Jesus. Time reflects your choices, your priorities, what is important to you, and the opportunities you have.\u201d says columnist Viviane Freitas<\/span> <\/a>on her blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus gives the example of a woman who prioritized Him. She did so not only with her physical offering but with her time. (Matthew 26:7)
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\n<\/span>When You Dedicate Your Time to God, You Express How Valuable He Is<\/strong><\/h4>\n


\nThe woman mentioned in the book of Matthew took the most expensive perfume, went to the Lord Jesus, and gave Him two offerings: The perfume and her time. In this way, she demonstrated that God occupied first place in her life.<\/span><\/p>\n

How many times have you cried out to God for something? You\u2019d dedicate your time asking a request, but once you received the answer you didn\u2019t thank Him? Unfortunately, many people forget to kneel down and thank God for His deeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything we do for God is marked by both gratitude and ingratitude. However, ingratitude destroys your heart. It\u2019s not because God is vindictive, but because you can attract the curse into your life when you forget the One who loved you first. God is by your side every day,” \u00a0Viviane continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you do with your time and your choices? Is it a burden for you to attend church, read the Bible, meditate and pray? That shows what your spiritual life is like. Many disguise themselves as people of God, but in reality, they don\u2019t appreciate anything that Jesus has done. Jesus gives us the opportunity for repentance, but some prefer the glory of the world than Salvation,\u201d concludes Viviane.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dedicate your time to the things of God, be transparent, and make good use of the free opportunities that God gives you. Your time is sacred and precious. So don\u2019t waste it on the vain things of this world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parties, the internet, series, soap operas, and shopping will not add positive things to your life. Consecrate some moments with the Lord Jesus and see the fruits this will bring to your communion with God and your spiritual life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus offered His time to us here on earth, teaching His Word, and gave his life for us. Now is the time to give Him five minutes of our lives. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How have you been enjoying every minute of your day? Some people think they lack time. They want more hours to handle all their activities, but is this the problem? Or is it the mismanagement of tasks that makes time insufficient? The book of Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, \u201cTo everything, there is a season, a time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":339828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[6126,133,6124,174,187,189,6123,6121,6122],"site":[],"class_list":["post-338440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fast-of-daniel","category-lifestyle","tag-bible","tag-holy-spirit","tag-peace","tag-prayer","tag-sacrifice","tag-salvation","tag-sundays","tag-the-holy-spirit","tag-wednesday"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338440"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338450,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338440\/revisions\/338450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338440"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=338440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}