that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way. By Richard Baxter. Colossians chapter one, verse 10.

That you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way. Value time as an inestimable treasure and be just as careful that you lose not one day than you would be to lose a fortune. Many a man who is now in hell would give a thousand worlds if he had them for one of those hours which you idly cast away.

He who spends his life in idleness or vanity does worse than if he threw it into the sea, for he makes it fuel for his own condemnation. If our time is short and our work is great, then should we not be the more diligent, Will you loiter and trifle away your life when your everlasting welfare lies at stake?

Live as men who are always looking death in the face. Spend every day as if it were your last. Use your time as those who must shortly give an account to God. To squander time is to despise the gift of God and forget eternal realities. Each day lost on sin or vanity is a step nearer to judgment.

The man who neglects to redeem time is in danger of losing both time and eternity. Those who trifle away their days are treading on hollow ice. They do not know the moment when it will break under them.

The Almighty gave us seventy or eighty years, that we might spend them for His glory. Shall we dare to spend them in sin? Your time is God's, and not your own. Therefore spend it as if He were your employer, and you must answer to Him.

O precious time, more precious than gold or rubies, let not a day of it be trifled away. When you stand before God, how sweet will every hour appear which was spent for Him. Time is a stewardship which God entrusts to us, to be used wisely and faithfully, and for which we must give an account on the day of judgment.

We should ever strive to use our time as Jesus did when He was on earth.