The use of our time is a continual decision of priorities. We only have a finite resource of minutes and hours – how we use them will reveal where our greatest treasures and values lay. Dividing up the time we have and offering it in worship to God will by necessity characterize our stewardship as “living for Christ”.
Review:
Reconstitution – the act of redeeming time
Goal = Maturity
Key Principle:
Because Christ lives in me, I now live for Christ!
Conclusions:
- Living for Christ is stewarding your time
- Living for Christ requires intentionality
- Living for Christ is cross-seasonal
Application:
- Put God first
- Intentionally set time to follow Jesus
- Redeem this season, by looking to Jesus, and remember it is just a season
Galatians 2:20
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
1 Peter 1:22-24
“Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall.”
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
– Jim Elliot
Job 14:5
“Man’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.”
2 Timothy 4:2
“Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.”
Ecclesiastes 7:14a
“When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other.”
Genesis 1:14-19
“And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
Hebrews 12:2
“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.