Maximising Life

Wednesday 23 March
READ: James 4: 14
MORE LESSON: Psa 90: 10

The issue of spending your life in a way that you can say at the end of life that you made maximum use of the life that God gave you is so vital. James describes life as a vapour that appears for a moment (Jam 4: 14) and after that it disappears. The psalmist also confirmed it by saying that the best of man is 70 years, and by reason of strength it can extend to eighty but it soon ends and we fly away: Psa. 90: 10. The brevity of life is so amazing that it can be truly said that the years of life actually fly away.
This is why it is important to spend your life wisely and make maximum use of it. You have to live your life with a sense of destiny and urgency. Note that years are not stagnant but flying and time lost is gone forever. If you should do something and you don't, God can still help you to do it but definitely it won't be at the time you should but didn't- that time is gone forever. If you spend life doing nothing and having fun around as if life is a long holiday, you will look back and realise that the time of life has flown by. I have noticed that Africans, especially Nigerians, love holidays. And the way they spend their holidays is not impressing. A man says it is public holiday and sleeps, plays games or watches movies from dawn to dusk not realising that it is life that is ticking away. Many spend time going to lots of places that are not necessary, doing unnecessary things, sitting, gisting and laughing away while something precious and irrecoverable is slipping by. There are so many time- wasting activities in the lives of many which they begin to notice at old age, when there is no strength to redeem the time, that they have really done little or nothing much with life. It is time to call upon God to help in this matter.
How do you normally spend your day? Wasted days become wasted years and wasted years become wasted life. Time is life; so spend your time doing things that are impactful in life and eternity. Anything that does not have a corresponding contribution to your destiny should not be allowed. The way to maximise your day is to remove everything that doesn't add to your life and destiny from each day. I have found that one of the things difficult to control in life is time. However, it is possible with discipline. Discipline is difficult for man but when you hand over yourself to God, He will help you to lead a disciplined life. Only a man who has Jesus and is controlled by the Spirit can live a disciplined life. Spend your time, which is your life, on things that matter in life and eternity.

Prayer/Action
* Pray against the spirit of procrastination in your life in Jesus’ name.
* Receive the wisdom of God to maximise your time and opportunities in Jesus’ name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Everything I need to make 2016 good shall voluntarily walk up to me and respond to me, in the name of Jesus.