© 2014 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

“I don’t have time now. I’m too busy!” How often have you heard such words? I even know a 3-year old who responded, “Mom, I’m busy!” when she instructed him to do something. When we let our business interfere with obedience to God, are we acting like that three year old?

I once presented the claims of Christ to a fellow graduate student. He said he was too busy with life’s pleasures to submit to any restraints Christ might impose upon him. He added, “I figure I’ll get all the pleasure out of life that I can and then, after I’ve had all my fun, and I’m on my death bed, I’ll ask Christ to save me.” This statement betrays a heart full of premeditated rebellion. It presumes that a person can choose his or her own time to turn to Christ.

God, however, tells us that He, Himself, has chosen the appropriate time for obedience: now! “… I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2). He warns that delay has its consequences. “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation” (Hebrews 9:27-28).

Where is Christ in your priority structure? Have other things supplanted Him? A lawyer once asked God the Son, Jesus, a question: “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment” (Matthew 22:36-38).

The time for obeying Christ’s command to repent (Acts 17:30) will soon end. “And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer” (Revelation 10:5-6).

Have you no time for Christ?

 

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