Do You Have a Minute?

Speaking of a minute, did you know that there are 1440 of them in each 24 hour day? In a single minute 250 babies are born while 107 people breath their final breath. The average person in America will makes $0.096 cents per minute while Oprah Winfrey will make $523.00. In only a minute the world will use 55,757 barrels of oil, Americans will throw away 950,186 pounds of trash, lightening will strike the earth 360 times, and there will be 5 earthquakes. All in just one minute.

It’s amazing to me just how often we take a minute for granted. In fact, many times we long for a minute to pass just to get to the next minute. It’s 4:59 and we want it to be 5:00 so we can leave work. It’s 11:59 and we want it to be 12:00 so we can eat lunch! Other times we want a minute to last longer than 60 seconds. Like when we wake up one minute before our alarm is scheduled to go off, or when a teenager wants “just one more minute” before they have to say goodbye to their boyfriend or girlfriend for the night.

Some of life’s biggest choices will be made in only a minute. In fact it is said that it is often times the choices that are made in a minutes time that have the greatest effect on our lives and the lives of others.
What’s my point? Every minute matters! And when you look back on your week thus far the question comes, how did you spend your minutes? Did you spend your minutes on the things that matter, or did you simply throw your minutes to the wind as if you have been guaranteed an endless supply of minutes here on this earth?

We cannot get the minutes back that have come and gone, but we can make the most of the one’s we have ahead of us!

As you continue in the minutes, hours, and days ahead I want to encourage you to ask yourself the following questions: What is it that really matters? What do I want to be known for? If my legacy is my time what kind of legacy will I someday leave? What about how I’ve spent my time in the past can I learn from so that I make better use of my time for the future?

The Apostle Paul had certainly learned the value of a minute. Look with me at what he has to say in Philippians 3:7-14…

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Keep pressing on towards the goal and…

Be The Church!

P C W