“That Nothing Time”
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin ArticlesIn a large metropolis, a newspaper ad showed three people waiting for a city bus. Two of them were bored and listless, while the third was happily playing a game on a small portable electronic device. The ad said, “Do something with your nothing — that nothing time. The time in between everything else you have to do.” The idea was to sell the portable device so people could use all those segments of wasted waiting time.
Many folks constructively use the small increments of waiting time in various places (such as a doctor’s office) to read the Bible, memorize a verse of Scripture, or pray for a friend. It’s our longer waiting periods filled with uncertainty and indecision that may leave us anxious and frustrated (like being stranded in freeway traffic).
Paul challenged the Christians in Ephesus to:
“Walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:15-16 – NKJV).
A Greek scholar suggests that this refers to time in its “strategic and opportune seasons” and means “making a wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good.”
That’s the wise way for us as Christians to do something profitable with “that nothing time.”
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