Advantages in Using Your Time Wisely

Advantages in Using your Time Wisely

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"I have been shown that much sin has resulted from idleness. Active hands and minds do not find time to heed every temptation which the enemy suggests, but idle hands and brains are all ready for Satan to control. The mind, when not properly occupied, dwells upon improper things. Parents should teach their children that idleness is sin." -Ellen G. White, Adventist Home, page. 221, emphasis supplied.


This statement is really true. I remember when my mind or body is not busy on good things, it really inclines on bad ones. There are only two choices that we can choose from. There is no middle ground. The world is filled with crime, misery and heartaches. Every one is affected in one way or another. We might be a victim or we might be the ones that make people around us affected. These things happen mostly because of idleness. Improper use of our time. We should not allow to use our hands and minds idly. Mrs. White is addressing to parents, why? For most of the time, we as parents are the great contributors of what our world will be. I'm a young parent, and I'm responsible for my children what they will become someday. 

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"There is nothing," she added, "which more surely leads to evil than to lift all burdens from children, leaving them to an idle, aimless life, to do nothing, or to occupy themselves as they please. The minds of children are active, and if not occupied with that which is good and useful, they will inevitably turn to what is bad."

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She focuses on the parents on how to train their children to be a blessing to humanity. We cannot ignore the reality that the time we are living now, the problems we face, are overwhelming and inevitable, couldn't be solved by mere human intervention. While we are getting closer to the soon coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, it would get worse and worse. But while waiting, we still have things to do. We still have something that we can do to help. How? We'll start helping from our home. We'll start it by teaching and training young minds, our children. The change should start right there. But how? "While it is right and necessary for them to have recreation," Mrs. White says, "they should be taught to work, to have regular hours for physical labor and also for reading and study. See that they have employment suited to their years and are supplied with useful and interesting books." - Ellen G. White, Adventist Home, page. 221, emphasis supplied.

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It is really a practical advice. These can be applied to us too, not only for children. Do we use our time wisely? Are our minds occupied with good things? Do we feed them by making our self busy in reading, employment and pure recreation. What we want the world we live to be, starts from our home, us!