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Today's Devotional

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil—Ephesians 5:15,16 (ESV).

Consider how precious a thing time is which we are apt to squander away, as if it were of no value. Time is the measure of our lives, and as much as we lose of our time so much of our life is absolutely lost. All our time is given us in order to gain eternity; and there is not one moment of our time in which we may not work for eternity, and in which we may not store up immense treasures for a happy eternity. As many therefore as we lose of these precious moments, they are so many lost eternities. This present time is the only time of working; it is the only time we can call our own, and God only knows how long it will be so. It is short, it flies away in an instant, and when once it is gone, it cannot he recalled; the very moment in which we are reading this line, is just passing, never, never more to return. Every hour is posting away without stopping one moment till it be swallowed up in the immense gulf of eternity; and as many of these hours or moments as are lost, are lost for ever, the loss is irreparable. Learn hence, O my soul, to set a just value upon thy present time; learn to husband it well, by employing it in good works.

About the author and the source

Richard Challoner (1691–1781) was an English Roman Catholic bishop who wrote devotional and apologetic works and revised the Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible.