Money disbursed is worthless but time spent is costly. We can toss our money away trying to buy love or loyalty. As we can give our time to disloyal people and it can cost us everything. Money spent is not equivalent to time. The formula for determining what is priceless is the same in concluding what is meaningless.
When the majority of time is spent making money, an equally opposite effect occurs on the love producing scale. We must be rich in both money and love to balance our time between the two. One will flourish at the expense of the other.
It would be shameful to spend money earned in our youth, to buy love in old age. Only to realize in old age that we purchased counterfeit love and there is no more time left to recover the loss. What may have felt good in youth now feels disgraceful when we realize how we spent our time that we can no longer get back. Love seemed plentiful when we were young and rich enough to buy it in bulk. We obtained the best love money could buy in our youth. However, the return for our money is much less in old age. Now realizing that young lovers cannot possibly really love an old person the same. Especially now that we realize that time invested represents true love. If only we had spent our time cultivating an age appropriate love life and not buying fake love with money that no time was invested.
So we go about acting as if we are happy with bought love that requires so little quality time. Coming into the realization that although, now old and have more time to give, no one wants to spend their time with an old buyer of love. They choose instead to love one who spends their time wisely as if they were investing money.
For divine associations, closed doors are as important as open ones. There was once an atheist who told a friend to find more educated friends. The atheist was very scholastically educated, but nevertheless a nonbeliever in God, consequently they self prophesied the end of the friendship. Moreover, the atheist’s lack of belief gives us some clue where they do not invest time. As they age, it would be a shame if a worthy investment of their time were never found. It is apparent that time was spent in their youth seeking worldly knowledge.
For the buyer of love and the atheist, time is running out to find true love and true friendship. Both can be found in God, not people, and age does not matter. We can control our own joy based on where we spend time, not money. Peace is more valuable than wealth.
One day can propel us into greatness because of freedom to believe and faith in God. This understanding turns obstacles to testimonies. A horrible event is not forgotten because of some who pretend it never happened. Before old age catches up with you, repent of how your money and time were spent. Come into the knowledge that where money and time is spent can either ruin a life or the entire freedom-loving world. Turn from your wicked ways before it is too late and get your joy back. What is ahead is better than anything behind. In old age, stepping-stones are made from stumbling blocks.
2 Chronicles 7:14
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14 “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
Acts 2:38
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38 “Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Ezekiel 14:3
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3 “ “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all?”
1 Peter 4:3
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3 “For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.”
Genesis 21:2
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2 “Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.”
Ruth 4:15
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15 “He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.” ”
2 Samuel 19:32
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32 “Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years of age. He had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.”
Isaiah 46:4
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4 “Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”
1 John 2:27
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27 “As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.”