Wasted Time
Illustration★★★★Coming hastily into a chamber, I had almost thrown down a crystal hour-glass. Fear lest I had made me grieve as if I had broken it. But, alas! how much precious time have I cast away without any regret! The hour-glass was but crystal, each hour a pearl; that but like to be broken, this lost outright; that but casually, this done wilfully. A better hour-glass might be bought; but time lost once, lost ever. Thus we grieve more for toys than for treasure. Lord, give me an hour-glass, not to be by me, but to be in me. “Teach me to number my days.” An hour-glass, to turn me, “that I may apply my heart to wisdom” (Eph. v. 16).—
The point
Like a crystal hourglass, time once lost is gone forever; we grieve over toys but waste our greatest treasure—time.
Scripture
Psalm 90:12
Audience
Adults
Tone
Convicting · Solemn
To tell aloud
under a minute · 121 words