Your life is a time-sensitive trust from God. Think about this great biblical truth and what it means to the way you invest your time, energy, and money.

The idea that your life is a time-sensitive trust is a foundational concept in  Christianity. Biblical concepts like stewardship, responsibility, judgment, rewards, discipleship, and Christ’s lordship are based on the truth that God has entrusted us with our lives.

A trust is a property or interest held by one person for the profit or benefit of another. The owner of the property or interest in this case is God, your Creator. Your life belongs to God.  You are the trustee or steward of the life God has given you.  

This trust, your life, has a limit to it. In other words, it’s time-sensitive. The Bible teaches us that our time on earth is limited, some day we will die. Of course, we know this from experience as well, people die every day. Our death is an unavoidable fact. 

 We don’t know when our time will expire but it will because God’s Word tells us it will. Common sense also verifies this reality, over 166,000 people in the world die every day.

Accepting the fact of our morality should help us think about how we spend the time God gives us. As the old Latin phrase says, “Tempus Fugit,” time flies. Our time flies away and  never returns.

Your life is a time-sensitive TRUST from God. Our life is a gift, a trust to be lived to the glory of God. This is true of everyone who has ever lived. God is the originator, the giver, and the sustainer of our life.

What is it that God has entrusted to you? He has entrusted you with your life and all that comes with it. This implies that you belong to Him. Your body, wealth, gifts, talents, and time belong to Him.

Not only has God created us, He has redeemed us, saved us from the power and penalty of our sins. 1 Peter 118-19 is one of numerous New Testament reminders of the tremendous price Jesus paid to save us and make us His own, “You were not redeemed with perishable things like silver and gold…but with precious blood…the blood of Christ.”

Does all this matter to you? Do you believe this truth to the depth that it makes a difference in how you live? Truth is useless to us if we do not embrace it and the implications it has for us. For example, do you have electricity in your  home? Do you believe in it enough to flip a switch so you can see where are going or do you just stumble around in the dark? The truth (electricity) is there but you must choose to use it before the truth can benefit me. You must do something, flip the switch.

If your time is limited, and if what Christ has done to save you is true, what are you going to do about it? What are you willing to do, to change in order to take it seriously? How will you treat God, yourself, and others in light of this truth? God gives us only one day at a time and that is all we have.

Yesterday is gone, tomorrow may not come for us, we only have NOW. Let’s give God and others our best today and every day that He gives us.  

Winston Churchill reminds us, ” We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

Since your life is a time-sensitive gift from God, here are a couple of questions to consider.

First, has there been a time when you have chosen to turn over your life to God? Have you repented, turned away from the selfish life you have been living, and trusted Christ to save you and give you a new life? If not, please surrender yourself to the Lord now; you don’t know how long you have left to decide your eternal destiny.

Second, if you are a believer, is there some issue in your life that has a hold on you that you need to surrender to the Lord? Your time is limited and you need to live every day in obedience to the Lord. He gave his life for you and deserves nothing less than your complete devotion. 

Give the  Lord and others your best today because you life is a time-sensitive trust. How would you live if you knew this is your last day to live?