Make the most of your time. That is Solomon’s next point. Death puts a limitation on life, which puts a premium value on time. When something is limited its value increases. The problem is we don’t know how exactly much time we have. Because of this it is best to live as though your time was short. Imagine that you only had one month to live. How would you live that month? Solomon’s advice here is not that we should fill our time with more profitable activity, but rather that we fill our activity with a more profitable attitude. We should enjoy the blessing we have with gratitude and contentment. We should love and appreciate those close to us; we should notice them more and enjoy them. We should give our best to our work. We should not live half-heartedly and absentmindedly; rather, we should engage in everything deliberately and attentively. Learn to find God in every pleasure, relationship and activity. Don’t create a sacred section of life for God whilst allowing the rest to transpire without meaning. Everything can become deeply meaningful. To make this so we must receive all good things as from God and every activity as for God. Don’t give some time to God and waste the rest. Live it all with God. Make the best of your days by seeing the best in your days. Life can be rich when we open our eyes to the many little blessings and messages that God sends us in the otherwise mundane circumstances. Don’t miss out on your own life. Make the most of your time.
Ask God to help you see more of what he wants you to see in the people and things around you.
Read Ecclesiastes 9:7-10
