August 22.
Time Spent Supremely

Genesis 5:22

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughter.

Enoch walked with God for 300 years. If you analyze your life and add up the time you spent in church, you might be shocked to know how little time you’ve given to the Lord. Moreover, you have to erase the time you were not paying attention and the time you were not involved in worship service. The average person who lives to be 70 years of age will spend 20 of the 70 years sleeping. If you work on a job until you retire, you will spend 18 years working. You will spend 5 years in school, 5 years eating, and about 5 years in miscellaneous. (That’s stuff you can’t talk about.) If you start from the day you are born and live to be 70 years of age and spend 2 1/2 hours per Sunday for 70 years, it will equal to one year. Isn’t that something? To think here I am, holy, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost and then I can’t give God but one year out of 70. And then we have the audacity to talk about going up yonder to be with the Lord where every day is Sunday and Sabbath will have no end. You ain’t ready to go honey. If you can’t hang around church a little while, cancel heavens reservations.

But here is a man that gave God 300 years of faithful service. We stop and then start. Can I let you in on a secret? Don’t let nothing or nobody stop you from giving your best to the Lord. Unplug it, cut it off, take it out, whatever you can do with it, but get it out of the way. Do everything you can for the glory of our God. Serving the Lord brings rewards. When you walk with Him he preserves you. He keeps you young. He will put pep in your step and joy in your heart. Instead of frowning, you can smile through a storm. I told the Lord a long time ago, I’ll walk for you even though some things I cannot see behind the wall, if you just see for me. I don’t know what tomorrow brings, but I know the Lord can handle it. Keep walking!