Ephesians 5:15-16
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
One of the things that marks the Christian approach to time is a sort of earnest and dedicated sense that it is short. This is something nobody much believes when they are young and everybody begins to grasp as they get old — old enough to lament that they didn’t really believe it when they were young. In youth, life is more or less a long Saturday afternoon. The test is days away. By Sunday evening, we realize with a dawning sense of rushed worry that the test is tomorrow morning and we have to cram. Christian teaching stresses again and again the need to prepare now so that we will be ready later, to walk a mile or two every day for months rather than try to walk a thousand miles in a week. Thus, “making the most of the time” does not mean a frenzy of fevered activity. It means a measured step of slow and steady obedience to Christ, a “long obedience in the same direction.” Today, be wise and do the next practical thing in obedience to the Holy Spirit. God will light the path before your feet so that you can walk now, rather than run frantically later.
