86,400

Today is nearly gone. 86,400 seconds wasted or invested. I cannot save time to use later. I either invested it or wasted it. Those are the only two choices. Now, it's after 11:00 and I should go to bed soon... Tomorrow, I will have another fresh 86,400 seconds to invest or waste. I will sleep away thousands of those precious seconds, then, the children need to be to school by 8:00a. I must be to work by 9:00a. By 6:00p I should be home in time to grab supper then, it's off to Bible study at 8:00p. When I come home after 9:00p... how will I use those last couple hours before bed?

Tonight I listened as a girl, nearly 20 years years younger than me, wept for the lost and described her passion to go and serve in the townships outside Cape Town, South Africa... to go be Jesus to the needy, to bring His love and His message of forgiveness to the AIDS orphans, prostitutes and drunks of Masiphumelele. That mission field is dangerous, smelly, frustrating, and ...

My friend Paul is dying. He is not a young man, but he now knows his heart is nearly completely choked off by hardened arteries. There is nothing the doctors can do. Paul is like a man on fire. Knowing his time is limited, he wants to extract from every day every ounce of value. I don't know that my time is limited, but I don't know that it's not either. God ignite my fire to burn bright for you... Help me invest tomorrow's 86,400 better than I did today.