the idle clock

All year long i long for summer. I have a mental list of all the things i want to do but never have time for. Now summer is here, time is plenty, and that mental note seems to have completely disappeared. I realize during less busy seasons how much i love having a task or job or anything even if it's just reading itself. Before school got out during finals week i had a surprisingly large amount of extra time. I spent my time basically almost daily at Sweet Eugene's meeting with people i do not always get a lot of time to see and reading, a lot. After about 3 days of this i started feeling to spiritually dry thus so thirsty!

I didn't understand why i wasn't being fed and staying full on Gods Word. Then one day the Lord took me to Colossians 3:5

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

See that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil - -  Ephesians 5:15-17 

I had never heard of redeeming the time, and began learning that it meant to buy back, to rescue time. Verse 14 says,

Awake you who sleep, Arise from he dead, And Christ will give you light.

(does this not get you pumped?) We are all called to use our short piece of time on this earth wisely because this is the only time we will ever have to serve the Lord, one day we will be with him in GLORY so this IS the time!
Proverbs 19:15, says an idle person will suffer hunger and in proverbs 31: 27,

She watches over the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness

The virtuous wife and woman is a busy woman, one who does not partake in idleness. Being the busy person i am, this got me pumped. It was time i stared rescuing time i lose by simply not acknowledging the value in it. Although i was spending time in the Word i was not being fed because i had so much idle time and spent the rest of it reading, but my idle time was great. I was so thankful the Lord showed me this truth before summer. I always want to be hungry for Gods word, but i want to always feed me. Now this is not to say relaxing and not having a schedule is bad, in fact i think it is  incredibly healthy for those season, however, i believe in those seasons our time should be filled with God and that should be our plan.

So what is your idle clock ticking towards? Netflix? Sleeping all day? It is time to WAKE up and arise, because the King is coming to redeem the time and to take us back and He is coming soon. I don't want to waste another idle minute, because the clock is continually ticking.