As we begin wrapping up our week focused on centering our lives around Jesus,

today we'll look at how to make the most of our time.

Where we spend our time is where we place our value.

As you begin to examine your life today, may God give you eyes to see what's hindering

you and what truly brings you life. How we spend our time is foundational to how we center

our lives around Christ. Welcome to the first 15 podcast.

Ephesians 5, 15, and 16 warns us look carefully than how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Our time is of the utmost importance here on earth.

We'll never get back the days we spend frivolously pursuing the things of the world.

We'll never get back the time spent outside frivolously pursuing the things of the world. We'll never get back

the time spent outside of God's purpose and receiving and giving love. Our time here is too

limited and too important to spend on burdens, stresses, sin, and worldly pursuits. If we're going

to make the most of this life, we must learn to center our

time around the eternal value of meeting with God. It's for this reason James 4, 13, and 15 says,

come now, you who say today or tomorrow, we will go into such and such a town, and spend a year there

and trade and make a profit. Yet, you do not know what tomorrow

will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

Instead, you ought to say, if the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that. Looking at the

ways in which we spend our time is one of the best ways to assess

the posture of our heart. If we spend all our time working for and thinking about the

things of the world, we can know that we have not yet come into a right revelation of God's

purposes for us. If we spend the majority of our time simply getting through our days, trying

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