Living for What Really Matters: There's No Time to Waste
How the passing of time brings us back to eternal purpose
Have you noticed how often we say to each other how quickly time flies? We all tend to say this time of year, “Can you believe how fast this year went?” Especially when we get to December. But it’s not just a saying; it’s real. Time is flying by.
If you think about it, it feels like each year goes faster than the previous one. What this tells me is life on earth is really short. It’s not just an idea or a saying; it’s a truth we often ignore. Our life on earth is, in many ways, just a halfway house. For the lack of a better phrase, a pit stop. And what we do with our time here matters because it determines how we’ll spend eternity.
What is even more important is that our destiny is in our own hands.
Not in the sense that we can earn our way to heaven, but in the sense that we decide what we do with the truth of the Gospel.
Most of us, at some point, have heard about Jesus. Some of us have chosen to follow Him. Others heard the message and walked away. And many are still caught in the in-between, not rejecting it but also not truly embracing it. And while we hesitate, time slips away.
If you’ve heard the Gospel, the question now is, what are you doing with it?
Do you believe it?
And if so, does your life reflect that belief?
Because that’s really the heart of the Gospel: to be conformed to the image of Christ.
I think that’s where many of us get stuck. I certainly was. We know the story of Jesus. We may even believe it fully. But we aren’t prepared to live it out. Because living it means sacrifice in the sense of living differently. It means swimming against the current of a world that is always going the other way.
But that is God’s will for us—to live holy lives, set apart, dedicated to Him. To talk differently. To act differently. To love differently. Not out of obligation, but because we’ve been changed.
As you think about this, you can’t ignore the truth anymore: there’s no time to waste.
We’re halfway through the year—again. And as Christians, we’ve become so entangled in the rhythms of the world that we’ve forgotten what really matters. The Gospel is not just a message for Sunday mornings or quiet times. It’s a call to transformation.
Use your time to live for what matters most.
Ask yourself:
Have I been feeling the urgency of time lately?
What part of my life still looks more like the world than Christ?
What does it mean for me, practically, to live a holy life today?