What is the most universal slaughter? It has to be “the killing of time.” Sigmund Freud suffered from a horrible cancer of the mouth. In 1926, he also developed heart trouble and spent time in a sanitarium. He returned to Vienna with a yearning for morning drives, and for the first time he experienced the glories of the springtime in Vienna. “What a pity,” he wrote, “that one has to grow old and ill before making this discovery.”
There it is! We kill time when we do not recognize or acknowledge God’s blessings. Another way we kill time is when we put off until tomorrow what we know we ought to be doing today. And still an additional way we kill time is when we major on the minors and minor on the majors. So we can identify with the apostle Paul or at least we should be able to identify with him. Writing to the Ephesians, Paul says. “Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time.” Here we see that no occasion is too insignificant for redeeming the time. Whether we are in a business transaction, at the theater, on the athletic field or whatever, no occasion is too insignificant for redeeming the time. Time is precious and God takes it seriously.
The Rev. Hal Brady is an ordained United Methodist minister and executive director of Hal Brady Ministries, based in Atlanta. You can watch him preach every week on the Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters TV channel Thursdays at 8 p.m.
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