You don't want to get to the next stage of your life and regret that you wasted the previous decade. You can never recover your wasted years. A life spent for Christ is not a wasted life.
MOMENTS MATTER
Time spent on the passing, empty moments are wasted. Wasted moments become wasted hours, and wasted hours become wasted days, and wasted days become wasted weeks, months, years, decades, a wasted lifetime and an eternity.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
Don't look back from your twenties and regret that your teen years were wasted.
Don't look back from your thirties and regret that your twenties were wasted.
Don't look back from your forties and regret that your thirties were wasted.
Don't look back from your fifties and regret that your forties were wasted.
Don't look back from your sixties and regret that your fifties were wasted.
Don't look back from your seventies and regret that your sixties were wasted.
Don't look back from your eighties and regret that your seventies were wasted.
Don't look back from your nineties and regret that your eighties were wasted.
Don't look back from your second hundred years and regret that you wasted your first hundred years.
You can never recover your wasted years.
One way to avoid or limit future regret is to make certain that you are not wasting this present time.
People tend to put off their present opportunities and obligations until, "a more convenient time." The problem is, the "more convenient time" seldom comes, and if it does, folks are too busy, too tired, too overwhelmed or too distracted.
Time is one of your greatest treasures, but it is limited. Don't throw away the time God has given you. Instead, redeem the time. You have lost enough time already. Though you cannot recover the time you have lost, you can dedicate yourself to not lose any more time. Scripture says, "It is appointed unto man once to die, and after that, the judgment." There is coming a time for each of us, when time will be no more. This moment of time will give way to eternity, with or without God. God has provided for us to be with Him forever, but we must choose, while we have time.
God sent His Son to seek and to save you. Don't neglect or reject God. Seek Him, Pursue Him. The sooner you pour yourself into serving God, the more you will realize the power and the goodness of God, and the more God will involve you in His Divine purpose. As Paul said,
Philippians 3:7-11
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
The Bible tells us, "Seek the Lord while He may be found..." and, "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you." Seek God and He will open your understanding. We must become people of faith and, "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God." God will lead you in the way you ought to go. You can find valid counsel in the Bible, in heart searching sermons, in the guidance of mature and pure hearted believers.
It will seem costly, but the Christian life is an investment and a sacrifice. God's word tells us, "The momentary light affliction of this present time is not worthy to be compared to the eternal weight of glory that will be revealed." Don't be one of those people who sits on the sideline of life, criticizing the people who are actually doing the work of God.
Don't wait for someone else to lead the way, or wait for some catastrophic event to shake you out of your stupor. The call is already given, "Whom shall I send, who will go for me?" Now is the time to say, "Here am I Lord, send me."
Whatever your age and whatever your experience, you need to start as a follower, as a learner, as a servant. And you will never outgrow those positions. Humility, submission, consuming love should always be part of your character. We should not only come to a full surrender, but we should also continue in full surrender. "Now is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation."
