Redeeming the Time Because the Days are Evil
Found this by looking up "Redeeming the Time" on Google. Found these words on Bible Hub. Pretty sure these words are from Alexander MacClaren (1826-1910), an English preacher of the 19th and 20th century. Note the richness of his language and the beauty and inspiration of his words:
"...He who has learned that all the moments are heavy with significance, and pregnant with immortal issues, he, too, in some measure, may share in the prerogative of the timeless God, and to him, one day may be as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day. It is not the beat of the pendulum or the tick of the clock that measure time, but it is the deeds which we crowd into it, and the feelings and thoughts which it ministers to us. This passing life draws all its importance from the boundless eternal issues to which it leads. Every little puddle on the paving-stones this morning, one quarter inch broad and a film deep, will be mirroring bright sunshine, and blue with the reflected heaven. And so we may make the little drop of our lives radiant in the image of God and bright with the certainties of immortality..."
Life is short; eternity is long...
"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:15-16
"...He who has learned that all the moments are heavy with significance, and pregnant with immortal issues, he, too, in some measure, may share in the prerogative of the timeless God, and to him, one day may be as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day. It is not the beat of the pendulum or the tick of the clock that measure time, but it is the deeds which we crowd into it, and the feelings and thoughts which it ministers to us. This passing life draws all its importance from the boundless eternal issues to which it leads. Every little puddle on the paving-stones this morning, one quarter inch broad and a film deep, will be mirroring bright sunshine, and blue with the reflected heaven. And so we may make the little drop of our lives radiant in the image of God and bright with the certainties of immortality..."
Life is short; eternity is long...
"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:15-16
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