Bank Account For One Day
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesThe following thoughts are from a selected short article in the Sword and Staff publication, Vol. 42, 2004. The message it presents should be of utmost importance to us as we teach and preach the saving gospel of Christ to others.
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening there is deleted whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out all of it, of course.
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is time. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purposes. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against “tomorrow”
You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today (Ephesians 5:15-16).