Number Your Days Not Your Money
One thing the parable of the talents in Matthew 25 teaches us is that God hates waste and He loves productivity. But of all things that can be wasted, the most precious is time. You can always make more money, but since God created creation till today, he has only stopped time twice in the case of Joshua in Joshua 10:13 and in the case of King Hezekiah in 2 Kings 20:11 and Isaiah 38:8. The wisdom that we can glean from these experiences is that time is more valuable than money. So, never think that you can impress God by giving the best of your money to the things of God while devoting the best of your time to the things of men. God wants your life time before He wants your life’s dime! If you do not know how to make the best use of a normal life span on earth which comprises 70 years on average, how will you be able to make the best use of everlasting life in God’s kingdom? And that is the ultimate purpose of life-preparation for God’s Kingdom. This was the case of the rich fool in Luke 12:20. He knew how to manage his money but he did not know how to manage his time and God called him a fool. Why? Because when you number your days you become wise “teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom”-Psalm 90:12. However, when you number your money and not your days this is what The Bible says about you “why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?”-Proverbs 17:16.Reno Omokri is the pastor of the Mind of Christ Christian Center and the author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God