How do you redeem the time?
Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. ” ( Colossians 4:5-6 ) Time is the most precious resource available to us. Obviously, it becomes available moment by moment, and there is absolutely no way to recapture what has moved into the past. “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom” ( Psalm 90:12 ). Our lifestyle should be recognizable from the wisdom that comes from the “fear of the LORD” ( Psalm 111:10 ). So much so that our everyday conversation should not be “in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual” ( 1 Corinthians 2:13 ). “Every idle word that men shall speak” will one day be evaluated “in the day of judgment” ( Matthew 12:36 ). It is clear that “God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whe