双语灵修（葛培理牧师）：1月30日 合理利用你的时间

1月30日

合理利用你的时间

你们的生命是什么呢？你们原来是一片云雾，出现少时就不见了。

（雅各书 4:14）

没有什么事情是神意料之外的事情，每件事情都在他的计划中运行。神也想让你成为祂计划的一部分。魔鬼对这个世界也有一个计划。神的计划，魔鬼的计划，你不得不做出决定，并且参与到其中一个计划中。

圣经上说神允许我们在世70年时间或者更久一点。前十五年是儿童时期和少年时期，20年的时间是在睡眠中度过，最后的五年我们身体开始衰弱，日常活动受到限制。成年人的时间大约有三十年。我们花时间吃饭，计算税收，这又减少了十五年。假如我们花七年的时间看电视，又减少了七、八年。我们的时间真的太有限了！用在神身上的时间，创造新事物的时间，为主寻找子民的时间太有限了！

今日祷告:

主耶稣，离开世俗生活的每时每刻，我愿意服侍祢，请祢原谅我们花那么多时间做徒劳的努力。奉耶稣的名，阿们。

January 30

Use Your Time Wisely

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

—James 4:14

Nothing takes God by surprise. Everything is moving according to a plan, and God wants you in that plan. The devil also has a plan for the world. God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you are going to fit into.

Scripture says that God allows us 70 years and some beyond. The first 15 are spent in childhood and early adolescence. Twenty years are spent in bed, and in the last five, physical limitations start to curtail our activities. That gives us about 30 years in which to live as adults. We take time out for eating, and for figuring our taxes, and we are down to perhaps 15 years. Now suppose we spend seven of those years watching television. That cuts us down to seven or eight years. Our time is short! The time we can invest for God, in creative things, in reaching our fellowmen for Christ, is short!

Prayer for the day:

Each hour of every day that is left of this earthly life, I would spend serving You, Lord Jesus. Forgive the time spent so often in needless endeavor. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.