What is the value of a second? Which merits another question; what of fifteen seconds? A minute? Five, ten, fifteen minutes? A half-hour? An hour?
A day? A week? A month? A year? A lifetime?
God has given us these things. We only get one life but God has given us years, months, weeks, days, hours, half-hours, minutes, and seconds. A second is a gift from God. Seconds are gifts from God. Every second is a gift from God.
What should we do with these gifts? These seconds? What can we do with a mere second?
We can do what we were made to do. What were we made to do? I will share a quote from John Piper.
“[We were made to live with] a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying His supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.”
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
Every second, we should enjoy God. Every second, we should glorify God. Not ourselves.
I have struggled with wanting glory for myself. A recent sermon pointed out my flaw. I want people to like my writing, to praise that I’m writing a book, and to like me.
“Live in the moment.” It’s a common saying. Here is what I want us to do. “Live in the enjoyment of God every moment.”