With each passing year we should be reminded of the shortness of time. And with each time we hear the gospel, we need to be reminded of the nearness of our Lord's return. The apostle exhorts us to "redeem the time, because the days are evil." What does it mean to "redeem the time"?
The word "redeem" in this verse means to "rescue from loss." Lost time can never be recovered. All of us have been guilty of wasting time, and we all have regrets, over time we could have spent more wisely. So the apostle tells us not to waste time nor lose time, but rather make good use of the time "because the days are evil." He says the days are such that we have no time to lose. The day in which we live should cause us to spend our time more wisely. How is that?
Let us, spend our TIME about the things of God. Let us spend our TIME with those who are about the things of God. Let us gather together every TIME the saints gather. Let us spend less TIME doing unprofitable things and more TIME in things that edify. Let us not waste our TIME in pursuit of material nor temporal things, but use our TIME pursuing things eternal. Let us take more TIME to read, study, pray, worship, fellowship; Yes, LET US REDEEM THE TIME! The apostle said in another place, "And that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed" (Rom. 13:11). So, beloved brethren and sisters, "LET US REDEEM THE TIME!"