133. TIME, REDEEM THE
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Redeeming the time, because the days are evil (Eph.5:16).
1. Only one life, 'twill soon be past.
Only what's done for Christ will last.
2. The less time you have to plan, the more important it is to plan your time prayerfully.
3. Live every day like it's your last.
4. One of the Enemy's wiles is "Wait awhile".
5. Alexander the Great being asked how he had conquered the world, replied, "By not delaying."
6. Methinks I see the idle hours flee,
And as they pass, turn back & laugh at me.
7. Yesterday is a canceled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have--so spend it wisely.
8. Each morning puts a man on trial & each evening passes judgment.
9. Tomorrow is a very important thing in life: It comes unto you at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives & it puts itself in your hands. It hopes you've learned something from yesterday.
10. The past cannot be changed, but the future is still in your power.
11. Some of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
12. What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put into the hours.
13. All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
14. We are always complaining our days are few, & acting as though there would be no end of them.
15. What did I do today that I won't have to do tomorrow? What progress, move or accomplishment, new, different or additional thing have I done more that the usual things I always have to do each day?
16. Have a happy tomorrow--do today's work today.
17. How strange to use "You only live once", as an excuse to throw it away.
18. If you want to follow in your father's footsteps, don't wear loafers.
19. The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power,
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own,
Live, love, toil with a will!
Place no faith in time,
For the clock may soon be still!
20. Friend, take time while time doth last,
For time is no time when time is past.
21. Know the true value of time, snatch, seize, & enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
22. If the Devil can't stop you, he delays you.
23. The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you are through.
24. Office sign: If you have nothing to do, please don't do it here.
25. Doing nothing is about the most tiresome work in the World because you cannot stop & rest.
26. Retired is being tired twice, I've thought,
First tired of working, then tired of not.
27. Our days are like suitcases--all the same size; but some people seem to be able to pack more into them than others.
28. Time-stealing is a frequent crime in most organisations!
29. If you're doing anything other than putting God first & saving souls, & preparing yourselves to rule the World, then you're wasting time!
30. This is our last chance to go into all the World & preach the Gospel to every creature! This is the End! We're their last chance & we'd better make good what God has given. This is everybody's last chance to get on with it, & off with it--for it's the end of the line!
31. So what are you going to do? Are you going to pray like everything depended on prayer, work like everything depended on work & study like everything depended on studying & provision like everything depended on provisioning & teach like everything depended on teaching & witness like everything depended on witnessing? Or are you going to say, "Oh well, we have a few more years!--We might as well take it easy!"--Let me warn you, you may not have a few more years.--Your time may be at hand already & you may be about to be offered!
32. Most of us don't do our best unless it's under pressure.
33. I don't know what's going to happen when there's no place to move or you can't move under the new World government. But we don't have to worry about that, today's today & now we're going great guns & we'll fight the battle while we're winning & trust the Lord to supply the needs.
34. Speed is far more vital to us now than perfection!
(See also No.156, 160, 182, 186A, 191, 207, 215, 280, 281, 320, 906, 951, 953-3, 971, 981, 1248, 1347, 1364, 1469, 1636.)
35. 1SA.21:8b The king's business required haste.
36. PSA.90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
37. PRO.14:23 In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
38. ECC.3:1-8 To every thing there is a season, & a time to every purpose under the Heaven: A time to be born, & a time to die; a time to plant, & a time to pluck up that which was planted; A time to kill, & a time to heal; a time to break down, & a time to build up; A time to weep, & a time to laugh; a time to mourn, & a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, & a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, & a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, & a time to lose; a time to keep, & a time to cast away; A time to rend & a time to sew; a time to keep silence, & a time to speak; A time to love & a time to hate; a time of war & a time of peace.
39. MAT.24:33,34 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
40. MAT.24:42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
41. MAT.25:13 Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
42. MAR.13:37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
43. LUK.12:38-40 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, & find them so, blessed are those servants, And this know, that if the goodman of the house had know what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, & not have suffered his house to be broken through. Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
44. JOH.7:6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
45. JOH.9:4 I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work.
46. ROM.13:11,12 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our Salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, & let us put on the armour of light.
47. EPH.5:15,16 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time. because the days are evil.
48. 1PET.4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, & watch unto prayer.
49. REV.1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, & they that hear the Words of this prophecy, & keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
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