Making the Most of the Time We’re Given
Dave Riddle - 1/15/2023
Key Passage: Ephesians 5:15-17
Look (Ephesians 5:15)
Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk.
Literally “look carefully”
blepo (Greek: βλέπω) literally: to see. Metaphorically: to see with the mind’s eye. To turn the thoughts or direct the mind to a thing; to look at; to weigh carefully; to examine, consider and/or contemplate.
How you walk = peripateo (Greek: περιπατέω) literally: to tread all around, walk at large. Figuratively: to live, to make one’s way, to regulate one’s life, to conduct oneself
How? (v. 15)
Not as unwise people but as wise
sophos (Greek: σοφῷ) - Wise. To have skill or expertise. To best form plans and use the best means for their actual execution.
Proverbs 1:1-7
If we don’t pay careful attention to the way we live our lives, then we are living as fools!
Seize (Ephesians 5:16)
chronos vs kairos
Greek: καιρός: No direct English equivalent
The right time
The critical time
The opportune moment
Implies, not the convenience of the season, but the necessity of the time at hand.
“Kairos is when eternity steps into time”
To make wise and sacred use of every opportunity for doing good.
Know (Ephesians 5:17)
So don’t be foolish, but understand.
syniemi: to put together (mentally) to comprehend, to set or join together in the mind. To understand and act piously. Having the knowledge of those thing which pertain to salvation.
How do we know the will of God?
Romans 12:2
Francis Chan: “What is God’s well for my life for the next five minutes?”
Jim Elliot: “Wherever you are, be all there; live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
MLK Jr. “It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.“ & “We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always right to do right”