The Hardest Thing to Give

It often seems that the hardest thing for us to give to our Father God is the one thing with which we are most abundantly blessed.   Every day we receive the same amount of it.  We receive the same amount whether we are rich, or poor.  He takes no account of the size of our pocket books, or the affluence of the neighborhood.  When we are laid in our grave it can be said of each one of us that we received from God twenty-four hours every day of our life.  Time is the hardest thing for us to give to God our Father.     

We are so blessed with it; yet, we offer it to Him as a gift in such a careless manner.  We may give to God the first fruits of our income, the Biblical ten percent, but we mostly give to God the leftovers when it comes to giving time to Him.  And, as we know, time is a most important thing to give freely in any relationship.  Our relationships with family suffer when we allow other things outside of the home to dominate our use of the time which is ours.  Too many children grow up wondering who the man and woman are that show up in the house at the end of the day.     

Maintaining a relationship with God is the most important thing we can do in this life.  What it requires is some of the time He has given to us.  We seldom think that He blesses us with time for this reason.  We are more prone to think that He gives it to us so we will have time to earn a living.  And while there is some truth in such a thought, it is also true that making a living cannot be the definition of our life.  If it is, we have wasted our trips around the sun.  He blesses us with plenty of time.  He blesses us with enough that there is enough to grow in our relationship with Him and still have enough left over for other important things in our life.