- Ephesians 5:16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
One day is 24 hours. However, when you [spend that time] working toward a certain purpose, you find that you can use only about 10 hours on working toward that purpose. It is because within 24 hours, you have to sleep, you have to eat, and you absolutely need to have ‘a process time’ for doing such things as making the preparations for taking action for your purpose. If you are doing actual work with 24 hours of a day, you are unable to get much done, you don’t have much time since it takes a lot of time to do that work, and time passes by quickly even though you do not use that much time. So while praying, I asked God, “Why does 24 hours of a day pass so quickly whether I am working or not, and even if I haven’t accomplished much?”
God said: “All of you take action with your bodies. So, in the course of using time, [you’ll notice] that time passes quickly without much to show for it. The body is slow. So in the course of moving a little, an hour passes by in no time at all. [24hours] is ostensibly 24 hours and contains only a lot of numbers. However, in reality, there is not much time in a day.”
I really understood the meaning of His words, ‘It is that way because you are a body and therefore slow.’ In the course of working for one day at a leisurely pace on ‘something you purposed,’ you find that time passes quickly, that a tremendous amount of time is needed, and that one day’s sun sets quickly. If you hurry and work quickly with urgency, you will have enough time, one day’s sun is long, and you will get all the work done before finishing the day. However, doing things quickly with urgency and hurrying every day is not easy to do. Your thoughts don’t run as fast as you expected and your body does not move quickly either. God said “If your spirit does the work while leading the body around, then you will do things quickly.”
If your spirit does the work while leading your body around, then ‘the level of your thoughts’ will rise. So you will keep taking ‘shortcuts.’ As a result, you will do things three times, five times faster. If you do that, one day’s sun is that much longer. Even if it is the same 24 hours, you will get a lot of work done in that time. Therefore, I tell you to do the work ‘spiritually by your spirit doing the work while leading your body around and using your body. In order for your spirit to do the work ‘spiritually’ using your body, you must always pray and always be spiritual. There is ‘only one’ method by which time can be held. That is, ‘to move your body fast by thinking fast.’ In order to do that, ‘your spirit should take action while leading your body around.’
The Holy Son said: “With that short amount of time, learn and use the Word of life that allows you to live forever. If you do, you will use time in the most valuable way as a human being.”
The Holy Spirit spoke too: “I am going to tell you about time using ‘food’ as a parable. So listen well. When bulgogi (marinated beef) is just cooked, it looks delicious and good to eat, right? When you eat it at that moment, you can taste its original flavor. However, the more time passes, the colder bulgogi gets and the more its original flavor disappears. Once the original flavor of food has changed, ‘your heart of thinking it is delicious and good to eat’ will disappear from your brain, you will not want to eat it, and even if you do eat it, you will just pick at it. The same is true for time. Once the time to take action, the time to use it passes, ‘the original flavor’ changes. Once the original flavor of time changes, ‘the desire to do it’ will disappear from your brain and you will not want to do it. And even if you do it, you will do it without heart. Therefore, just as you would chew and eat bulgogi deliciously when it is sizzling, do work at the moment I, the Holy Spirit, inspire you, the moment when that work looks delicious and good to eat because your brain wants to do it and is excited- do it at the right time, and at the right moment!
If ‘the original flavor’ changed because time has passed, there is a way you can regain ‘the flavor’ and do it even though it may not be as good as at first. When meat gets cold, ‘its original flavor’ changes. However, if you make it hot by heating it up again, a certain amount of ‘the flavor’ will return. Therefore, whatever work you do, do them at the right moment, the right time, when you are inspired, and when your heart is excited. If the flavor has changed because you missed the right time, then first, heat up your heart and thoughts and make yourself passionate first. Then take action.”
Prayer, work you should do, promises you made with Heaven- it is to do all of them at the right time and when they have the original flavor. If the flavor has changed because the right time has passed, then it is to do it after first heating up your heart and thoughts again and regaining the flavor.
Time passes quickly. Seasons pass quickly. Children and young adults think that they have a lot of time. However, if they just send time away without getting ‘anything done,’ then you are left with only ‘emptiness.’ Time and seasons flow continually every day without stopping, not being merciful to anyone –children, young adults, middle aged people, and elders.
Even if 7.3 billion people in the world on earth combine their strength and try to hold onto time, they cannot hold time. Therefore, you must think faster and live running faster. Only then will you become a person who holds time and will achieve many things for your body and also achieve ‘eternal things’ for your spirit, and so become someone who has succeeded. Your thoughts have to run fast. Your thoughts have to be swift. Only then will your body become swift and so your actions also will become fast. In order to do that, you should not take action only with your body. Your body is slow. So it cannot keep up with fast time. You must make sure to pray and take action ‘spiritually.’
Taking action spiritually is to do this: No matter what you do, you must make sure to call the Holy Spirit and the Lord and take action with the Holy Spirit and with the Lord. If you do that, you will finish in just ‘one hour’ what would have taken ‘two hours to do.’ So it becomes as if you have held onto one hour. The way to hold time is to ‘do things fast.’ And the way to do things fast is ‘to do things spiritually and divinely.’
To do something divinely is to use the Divine Being’s head. When you take action according to the way that God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son instruct you to do, that becomes you ‘using the Divine Being’s head,’ your thoughts become ‘thoughts as high as Heaven,’ and take action as someone who is holding onto and using 10 times or 100 times more time. Everyone uses up all 24 hours of each day on making themselves happy and delighted. People use up all 1440 minutes of each day on sleeping, eating, dressing, washing, exercising, playing, making money, watching TV, watching movies, reading comic books, reading novels, looking at things on the internet, and play games as they come to mind without refraining. If you connect with the Trinity for even ‘one minute’ in a day, you can say that you are connected and communicate with the Trinity even as much as a thread. You have to grab time and use it for ‘Heaven.’ Only then will you succeed both spiritually and physically.
Giving a tithe of time and tithe of wealth is basic. Since a day is 1440 minutes, 1/10th of that time, which is 144 minutes or 2 hours and 24 minutes is ‘the tithe of a day’s time.’ If you give a tithe of time to Heaven, God will give you ‘the blessing of time’ and ‘wisdom’ and enable you to finish in just five hours or seven hours what would have taken ten hours to do. Through that, [God] will make ‘your storehouse of time’ fill and overflow. Those who give to Heaven the tithe of time and tithe of wealth every day will receive twice, ten times, 100 times the blessings. So they will not be pressed [for time and money].
Calculate [how you spend] one day and see. If you reflect on your day and calculate [how you spend your time], you will see just how much you spend your days doing ‘unnecessary things.’ ‘Depending on how you use time,’ that time becomes a golden time, becomes time that is like steel, or becomes time that is like trash. You have to use it together with the Trinity. Only then will you use each time as golden time.