Time is of too great worth to waste one precious moment.  An hour lost is that much of life lost.  For all the time spent in idleness, you had just as well not have lived at all.  By rightly using each moment you will build up a character that will stand a monument upon the tomb of the dead past.  Moments misspent are life and character gone, and no imprint is left on the hearts of men to tell that we have lived.  How many golden moments are flying away into eternity unladen with any fruit from your life?  Learn to value time.  Redeem it because these days are evil.  Seize upon each passing moment, and send it up to the glorious Author of time laden with golden deeds.

MEDITATION.

The Scriptures invite Christians on to greater depths in the love of God and greater heights in his joy as they journey on through life.  It is the will of God that you grow in grace and become more spiritual each day of your life.  That meditation does affect one’s spirituality is an undeniable fact.  Meditating upon God and his law is an excellent means of increasing spiritual life in the soul.  Vagrant thoughts dull the finer sensibilities of the spiritual being, thereby rendering it less capable of impression by the Holy Ghost.

“Keeping in touch with God” is an expression much used in these days by people professing holiness, but what does it imply?  We are all at sea when not in touch with him.  To be so kept is to have everything in us fully alive to God.  Every Christian grace must be in a perfect state of health and vigorous growth.  If there be any dwarfed condition of the spiritual being in any part, it will be less sensible to God’s touch.  The blind have been known to cultivate the sense of touch in the physical being to the amazing acuteness of being able to distinguish between colors.  The sense of touch in the soul can by careful, earnest cultivation be refined to such a degree as to make it susceptible to the slightest impressions of the Spirit of God.

By an electric cable America is brought in touch with Europe.  Were this to become divided, communication would cease.  Sin divided the life-giving cable from the presence of God to the souls of men.  In Jesus the divided cable is taken up and united, and man brought into communion with God.  So cultured may become the sensibilities of the inner being, and so thoroughly impregnated by God’s enlivening power, that one empty thought causing the slightest ebbing of life’s current flow is keenly felt.  To keep in perfect touch with God is to live where there is a soul-consciousness that he is pleased with every act of your life, and where there is a clear, definite witnessing of the Spirit to your inmost soul that the words of your mouth and the meditations of your heart are acceptable unto him.