Talk Together
Family conversations with God’s Word.
If you had a whole day to spend doing whatever you wanted, what would you do? Where would you want to go and who would you want to spend your time with?
It’s fun to think about taking a day to do something fun with friends or family. Sometimes that is a perfect way to spend a day. But I have another question for you: How do you think God wants you to use your time?
God wants us to be wise about how we spend our time. Let’s see what He tells us about that in the Bible. Can you help me find Psalm 90, verse 12? The book of Psalms is in the Old Testament.
ESV
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
What do you think the word wisdom means?
Wisdom is not the same thing as being really smart. A person who has godly wisdom knows who God is, what God says in the Bible, and how to apply those two things to his or her life. You can be a smart person and make good choices without God. But godly wisdom, the kind that helps you become more like Jesus, can only come from God.
In Psalm 90 Moses was praying and asking God to help him (and the Israelites) to think carefully about their time so they would make wise and godly decisions.
As people we can spend a lot of time worrying about how we look and what other people think about us. We can pass time playing video games, watching silly videos or even doing nothing in particular. In and of themselves, those things are not bad. But if they consume our time we are not having a heart of wisdom.
Imagine Jesus showed up at our house tomorrow morning, how would you spend your day? Would you just do mindless activities or would you put a lot of thought into how you spent time together? Would He see you spending a lot of time worrying about how you look or what other people think about you? Would He see you staring at a screen not even really thinking about what you are watching?
Here’s the truth- if you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, God IS with you every day! The Holy Spirit is living in you and He never leaves you. He will help you to make the choices you need to make to help you become more like Jesus.
There is only so much time in every day. If we ask Him, God will give us the wisdom we need to know how we should spend our time.