Before you were born God made preparation for you to live a significant life. He provided you with all the tools, both natural and supernatural and the opportunity you need to do something of eternal significant. You are God's workmanship (His masterpiece) created in Christ Jesus to do good work which Christ prepared in advance for you to do. We have all been given one life to live, and we are to do something of eternal significant. We are to add to our faith good works, because faith without doing something that impacts eternity for the glory of God is dead.... If you're going to make your life count, you should start right now because time is not on your side! Psalm 90:12 says, So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom. I was looking at some old pictures recently and realized that in a photograph, you are frozen in time. I don't look now like I looked then. Time is not on my side! Time is not on your side so it must be subdued!
The bible says, time & chance happens for us all! If you don't subdue time, you'll waste it all and have nothing to show for it. If you don't subdue time, you will blow your chance to impact eternity for the glory of God! God is eternal (forever) and exist beyond the realm of time. However, we are born into time & must ask God to teach to become masters over time. When you become a master over time, you will discover that you have more than enough time to do God's will. You will discover that you have enough time for, family, career, recreation & calling. The bible demands that we redeem (number your days) the time because they days are evil. We are living in urgent times...we have no time to waste. By redeeming your days, hours, and minutes, you can better offer them to God.
Give your days to God as an offering, He will make it count for eternity! Make your life count because death comes for us all! Hebrews 9:27 says this: " Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." We all have an appointment with death. It’s an appointment that you can’t cancel, reschedule, or delay. It is for this reason that you want to make your life count. What we do in this life prepares us eternity. The Lord said, life does not consist in the abundance of our stuff. When death comes for us, we better be rich toward God with good works. You want to make it count because after your appointment with death, we will all give an account to God! 2 Cor. 5:10 reads: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
When you stand before God, need to be able to say, Lord, this is what I have done according to my abilities: Look at the lives I have impacted with acts of kindness; Lord, I have given a large part of my income to the Church to buy vans, property, and missions. Lord, I used both the natural & supernatural tools you gave me to complete your assignment for my life. You only have one life to live, make it count for the glory of God. You have been prepared by God to do something extraordinary with your life. It is not too late for you to make an eternal impact for eternity.