Making the Most of Our Time
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | As we begin wrapping up our week focused on centering our lives around Jesus. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we'll look at how to make the most of our time. |
| 0:14.0 | Where we spend our time is where we place our value. |
| 0:18.0 | As you begin to examine your life today, may God give you eyes to see what's hindering |
| 0:24.8 | you and what truly brings you life. |
| 0:28.5 | How we spend our time is foundational to how we center our lives around Christ. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the First 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Ephesians 5, verses 15 and 16. Scripture says, |
| 1:15.1 | Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the best use of the time, |
| 1:25.3 | because the days are evil. |
| 1:38.8 | Ephesians 5 verses 15 and 16 warns us, look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the best use of the time because the days are evil. |
| 1:46.0 | Our time is of the utmost importance here on earth. |
| 1:51.0 | We'll never get back the days we spend frivolously pursuing the things of the world. |
| 1:57.0 | We'll never get back the time spent outside of God's purposes of receiving and giving |
| 2:04.2 | love. Our time here is too limited and too important to spend on burdens, stresses, sin, and |
| 2:14.1 | worldly pursuits. If we're going to make the most of this life, |
| 2:19.4 | we must learn to center our time |
| 2:22.0 | around the eternal value of meeting with God. |
| 2:26.7 | It's for this reason, James Chapter 4, |
| 2:30.4 | verses 13 through 15 says, |
| 2:33.2 | come now, you who say, today or tomorrow, we will go into such and such a town and spend a year |
| 2:41.3 | there and trade and make a profit. |
| 2:44.6 | Yet, you do not know what tomorrow will bring. |
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