“They anger him because he regards his time as his own and feels that it is being stolen. You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption ‘ My time is my own’. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours.”
Screwtape (a demon) C.S. Lewis “The Screwtape Letters”
Time (properly used of course) is a wonderful thing. Through it, along with the workings of the Holy Spirit, we gain wisdom, knowledge, and understanding. Though while reading this portion of “The Screwtape Letters”, it came to my acknowledgment of how our society, including myself, has become consumed with the word “my”. My car, my tv, my clothes, my house, my awesome play, my girlfriend, my boyfriend, my time, my life. We regard everything as if we actually possess it, when in all reality this is simply not true. In actuality our lives and everything in them are graciously given to us by our Lord and savior Christ Jesus. When (by God’s grace) we get to the point where we realize we truly own nothing, then it is simple to give every portion of your Christ bought life, back to the true owner. Realizing that every hour of every day is His, and should therefore be used to glorify or magnify Him.
My earnest expectation and hope is that I will not be put to shames in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
-Philippians 1:20-21
written: July 07
