02/22/12 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OPPORTUNITIES
Life Is Fleeting
I woke up and discovered my FaceBook account was down for maintenance. I really like my various internet opportunities to stay in touch with friends and to share God's unsearchable truths with folks.
Just like the internet, real life can take a turn that limits our opportunities. In a moment, or overnight, or during the busy-ness of the day we can lose a friend or loved one, or an acquaintance and never have another opportunity to communicate with him again. Broken communications can come because of a geographical move, a change in relationship, a change in our access to the internet or death can terminate a relationship. We err when we take our opportunities and relationships for granted. We must Redeem the time, while we have open doors of opportunity to be instant in season and out of season.
Redeem the Time
Ephesians 5:16-17
(16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
(17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Colossians 4:5-6
(5) Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
(6) Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Open Door
Colossians 4:3
(3) Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
Instant In Season, Out Of Season
2 Timothy 4:1-4
(1) I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
(2) Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
(3) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
(4) And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Launch Out and Hold Fast,
Pastor David L. Gould
