作者  John316.bbs@cef1.cef.org.tw (天上飛來的水瓶 ),       看板  CYCU
 標題  LIVE BY GOD'S CLOCK
 時間  校園福音團契電子布告欄 (Mon May 22 07:58:37 2000)
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                      L I V E   I T !
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LIVE BY GOD'S CLOCK

God gives us 1,440 minutes in each day. You have as many minutes
as everyone else - no more, no less. Time can fly when you are
busy or having fun, and it can drag when you're bored and lonely.
It is your choices and expectations and the events you experience
that seem to affect its speed.

  * Time is important. God considers time an extremely important
    commodity. He knows that eternal destinies are decided during
    our earthly moments. He gives people plenty of time to come
    to know and trust Him.

  * Your time is in God's hands. You have no ultimate control
    over your moments or the length of your time in this world.
    As eternity belongs to God, so does time.

  * Practice being still. You don't have to spend a lot of time
    with God, but you do need to spend quiet, quality time with
    Him. Make your moments special by ignoring distractions and
    concentrating on Him alone. Are you too busy to be blessed or
    be a blessing?

  * Use your time to travel. During 10 minutes of prayer you can
    visit the continents of the world. You can be in China in the
    moment it takes to think about it and could visit the homes
    of believers there who are being persecuted for their faith.
    You could spend a few minutes asking God to strengthen these
    people and help them to endure and keep believing. Or within
    a moment you could be in Africa in the refugee camps, walking
    among starving children who are waiting for life-sustaining
    food. Ask the Lord to meet their spiritual needs and ask that
    He show you your part in alleviating their pain and
    suffering.

  * Give it all to God. How much of your 24 hours in a day does
    God expect you to share with Him? All of it. Prayer is a
    constant, living awareness of God.

  * Make the best use of your time. Jesus is the supreme example
    of the proper use of every moment. He had only half the usual
    allotted time span of a human being before His life was cut
    short. But look at what He accomplished - the redemption of
    the world. His public ministry lasted only three years, but
    His private ministry lasted as long as He lived - visiting
    His place of worship, spending time at His carpenter's bench,
    and otherwise dealing with His family's concerns. For Him
    there was no difference between the secular and the sacred.
    It was all a question of where God wanted Him and what God
    wanted Him to be doing at any given moment.

  * Live according to God's clock. When the time had fully come,
    God sent his Son (Gal 4:4). Jesus was born at the right
    moment, and throughout His life He reminded His disciples,
    His family, and His friends, My time is not yet come. He left
    no doubt that He was working according to a Divine timetable.

  * Your days are ordained. They are set aside for God's use and
    purpose. With that realization, even Monday mornings will
    look different.

  * There are no ordinary days. Each has an extraordinary
    significance because God has a Divine plan for your life and
    your day.

  * Eternity has begun. God has put eternity in your heart (Ecc.
    3:11). There should be a sense of eternal things permeating
    everything you think and do and are. What you do today can
    have eternal value.