...............AIN’T IT FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY..................My sister liked to listen to Elvis when she was younger. As a result I heard many of his songs. Ain't it funny how time slips away was one of those songs. One day as I was studying the Word a voice in me seemed to be saying ain’t it funny how time slips away. I thought on that phrase and the spirit of the Lord started showing me some things. This that I am about to write is the result of that study time.Time is a valuable resource that is not renewable. Once it is used, or spent, or slips away it is gone. There are 1,440 minutes in a day. 10,080 minutes in a week.Approximately 524,160 in a year with a few variables in the math. I was born in 1956 and up to the time I am writing this I have lived about 26,513,280 minutes. How have I spent them? If I got 8 hours of sleep a day that comes to 8,867,760 minutes. That still leaves 17,645,520 minutes .. That is close to the amount of minutes Jesus was here from birth to the cross. What have I done with them?New Living Translation (NLT) Passage Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.New Living Translation (NLT) Passage John 9:44. We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.The night is coming, and then no one can work.King James Version (KJV) Passage Luke 19:13And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.OCCUPY: to keep totally busy with what you are directed to do.Occupy doesn’t mean to fill space.In these scriptures we find that we are to keep busy working for the time is coming when we can’t work. The time for planning and working is know. After we leave this life we can’t do what we should have done for the time has past.Jesus left the splendor of Heaven. He stepped out of eternity into time. He was in time constraints for about 17,173,440 minutes. How did he spend those minutes?King James Version (KJV) Passage Luke 2:49And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?He spent his time doing the Fathers will.His ministry was about 1,794,240 minutes long from baptism to the cross. How did he spend those minutes and how are you spending yours?King James Version (KJV) Passage John 21:24-2524. This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.25. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.We think Jesus did a lot when we read the four gospels, however it is a very small sample of what he really did, seeing what John said in these verses. The world couldn’t contain the books if all he did were recorded.New Living Translation (NLT) Passage James 4:14-1714 How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. 15 What you ought to say is, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that." 16 Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil. 17. Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.King James Version (KJV) Passage James 4:14-17:14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.Are we following a course that we have planned out for our lives, or are we seeking God’s plan and doing it? If we know what we should do and don’t do it then that is sin. We can’t make a plan and chart our own course and ask God to bless it. We have to find out God’s plan for us and walk in it and it will be blessed. If our life is a mess then we have gotten off the road God has chosen for us and are out there on our own. Get back on track with God’s plan.Amplified Bible (AMP) Passage Colossians 4:5-65. Behave yourselves wisely [living prudently and with discretion] in your relations with those of the outside world (the non-Christians), making the very most of the time and seizing (buying up) the opportunity. 6. Let your speech at all times be gracious (pleasant and winsome), seasoned [as it were] with salt, [so that you may never be at a loss] to know how you ought to answer anyone [who puts a question to you].Gracious or grace which means favor and kindness. That is how we are to speak. And with salt in our speech, that is to say with prudence, wisdom, and insight.In the King James it says redeeming the time, in the Amplified it says making the most of the time and seizing the opportunity. Opportunities like time can slip away. Opportunities lost may never come again so we must be watching and grab them when they come our way. Your opportunity to minister to a lost person may be the last time they would have had to receive Christ before they leave this world. Don’t let it slip by. Make the most of every opportunity, turning it to the best advantage, since none can be recalled if missed.