Time to Serve God

Today I read Amos 2:10-6:1 and Revelation 9:10-10:9. My favorite verses are:

Amos 5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Revelation 10:5-6 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6 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.

God wants us to choose good when we have a choice to make between good and evil. Doing good will cause the Lord to dwell with you. The converse is also true—having the Lord dwell with you will cause you to do good. This is the way of life that God wants for us. He has lived and will live forever. He created all things, including time. Often we may complain that we just don’t have enough time to do all the things we need to do. But God wants us to use our time wisely because, as he warns in Revelation, some day time will run out. The angel will stand on the sea and the earth and declare “that there should be time no longer.” So in the time that He has given us, we need to serve Him and obey Him and seek to bring others to Him before time is gone.