Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, December 5th.

Today's podcast delivers a timely message to aid believers in concentrating on their connection with Christ and dealing with the pressure of time.

What is it that you're living for?

That is, what is it that you're investing your time and because your life is your time and your time is your life.

Well I want to talk about this whole matter of time and Paul gives us a very wise admonition in the fifth chapter of Ephesians, if you'll turn there for a moment.

The fifth chapter of Ephesians, and beginning in the 15th verse, he reminds us of something that you not need to be reminded of

often lest we allow our life our time to drift and the days go by and the

weeks go by and the months and the years and one of these days you ask yourself the question

Where is my life and where has it all gone? He says in verse 15 therefore, be careful how you walk, not his unwise men but

is wise, making the most of your time because the days are evil so then do not be foolish but understand

what the will of the Lord is and Paul is saying among many things in this

passage that all of us fall into one of two categories. Those who spend

their time wisely, those who spend their time foolishly, those who spend their time

wisely, are wise men, those who spend their time wisely are wise men.

Those who spend their time foolishly are foolish men or foolish women.

He says, be careful how you walk.

That is, be careful how you walk that is be careful how you live he says making the most of your time or of your life because

our time is our life and our life is their time.

Now all of us like to think in terms of living a very, very long time.

But that's not always the case and so many people make plans years and years and they say well now one of these days when I retire here's what I'm going to be and never lived to retire and so they work and they save and they plan and they store it all up so that when they're able to quit their work they'll be able just to live a life of ease and

pledge and relax and they never are able to do that because they don't live that long.

What is it that you're living for? That is, what is it that you're living for? That is, what is it that you're investing your time and because your life is your time and your time is your life?

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