"What time did you get up this morning? A little later than you planned perhaps? But, you say, it’s because I stayed up late last night. But what were you doing last night? Watching TV? What do have to show today for the time you spent watching TV last night? Nothing.
When we oversleep we miss the best part of the day, the early morning. A beautiful sunrise beats late night TV any day. In Exodus, Moses promised the people, “In the morning ye shall see the glory of the Lord.” David told God in Psalm 63, “Early will I seek thee”
No, God’s blessings are not limited to the dawning hours of the day, but there is a pattern among people that are greatly used of God of getting up earlier than the rest of us. Ben Franklin said, “The early morning has gold in its mouth.”
Why not claim some of that gold for yourself by rising early to redeem the time?
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"When the batteries go dead on a watch it will still be right twice a day. But if it runs 5 minutes fast or 5 minutes slow it will never be right.
In the same way, we’ll never be right if we’re running ahead of or behind God’s timing. God has a plan for each day of your life. In fact, He has a plan for each hour even each moment of your life.
We only get God’s best for our lives and experience His full blessing when we use our time in the plan God has for us. The one who runs ahead doing good works God didn’t want him to do, is like the fast clock. The one who is lazy and does nothing for the Lord or for anyone else, is the slow clock. Neither one will know the blessing of being in God’s will and the rewards that come from listening to Him and redeeming the time.
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"The bumper sticker on a lady’s car read, “Sometimes I wake up grumpy. Other times I just let him sleep.”
If her husband really was waking up grumpy he had developed a bad habit that needed to be conquered. There’s a saying, “As goes the morning, so goes the day.” And it’s often true. That’s why our efforts to redeem the time have to begin first thing in the morning before we even get out of bed. And we redeem those first few moments by talking to the Lord and asking Him to develop in us a good attitude.
I once heard a man tell how he began each day by sitting up on the side of the bed and giving a cheer saying, “Oh boy, it’s a great day to get up and go get ‘em.”
Imagine what a difference it would make in your day if you started off like that, wholeheartedly praising God, and redeeming the time.
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"The English language is a strange thing. We say one goose but two geese. Does that mean one moose two meese? We say one tooth and two teeth. So one booth and two beeth? People recite at a play and play at a recital. Does a house burn up or burn down?
Lots of things about our language don’t make sense. But it does make sense to learn our language and learn how to use it better. One way to do that is by increasing your vocabulary. Make a place in your organizer for new words you come across. Then, make little cards with your new words and keep them in your pocket or on your dashboard. When you’re in a waiting room or at a stop light take them out and practice using them. Look for ways to use them in writing or conversation. In time your communications skills will greatly increase.
God used words to bring the plan of salvation to us. Investing a few moments in learning to use precise words to better explain that plan of salvation to others is redeeming the time.
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