Hey everyone, your friend mb here again with what I like to call a Holy Spirit-Led musing.

It’s a twist on the sovereignty of God.

What brought this about was this: I found myself falling back into a lot of time-wasting habits over the last couple weeks. Habits that I thought were dead and buried when I gave my life to Christ.

These aren’t sinful by nature, but they can lead to sin.

I found myself spending hours on YouTube instead of doing what God had instructed me to through his Holy Spirit and also using both YouTube and music as a sort of pacifier when I would be in a bad mood instead of going to God with my grievances.

During a time of prayer, Holy Spirit spoke to my soul, meaning I did not hear him audibly so don’t worry about my sanity.

He said. “your time, My dime”.

For a little bit, I didn’t understand what It meant, but then I sat with it and I realized that we were bought with a heavy price.

Jesus Christ came from heaven above and died a criminal’s death for us.

He took the weight of the sin of the world past present and future upon his shoulders.

He gave his earthly life so that we might share in his eternal one.

He paid that price for us, and because he paid that price for us, a price covering a debt that we could never repay… Our lives belong to him, our time belongs to him.

So yes, it’s our time but it’s already paid for on his dime.

When we give our lives to Him, we are committing to serve him. We are committing to submit to him. We are committing to follow him in both time and eternity.

So when we fall back into old time-wasting habits or sinful practices, we are stealing time away from him. We are stealing time that he paid for with his life and his blood.

Preachers like to say that when we don’t tithe, we are robbing God.

Likewise when we put him on the back burner for anything, we are also robbing him. We are robbing him of opportunities to grow us, opportunities to bless us, opportunities to shower us with love and affection, opportunities to advance his kingdom through us and so much more.

And if we persist on robbing him unrepentantly, we will be robbing him of an eternity with us. I don’t know about you guys, but I certainly don’t want to do any of that any longer.

So I pray that this little musing of mine will help you to see the way you choose to spend your “free time“ a little bit differently. I know it certainly has done so for me.

MB