Evangelist

Chris Pruitt

Elders

Chuck Claiborne

Leonard Leavitt

Billy Hale

Deacons

Charlie Brown

Richard Kopydlowski

2424 McCarran St.

North Las Vegas, NV   89030

(702) 642-3141

Times of Services

Sunday

Bible Class:  9:00 am

Services:  9:50 am

Services:  6:00 pm

Wednesday

Bible Class:  7:30 pm

    It seems as though it is ever changing.  Sometimes it drags on when we are anxiously awaiting for some future event.  Other times it passes in a flash and we wonder where the time went.  Yet time is a constant.  The ticking of the clock does not speed up or slow down.  The years do not linger when we are young and rush by when we are older.  It is our perception that changes.

    The Psalmist observed that man’s lifespan extends to seventy years and if he is in good health it may extend to eighty  (Ps. 90.10).  If we were to take all the people who died in the last hundred years it would indeed average somewhere between seventy and eighty.  However, the fact remains that no one knows how many years they will have on earth.  Some lives may extend into triple digits while others may leave this earth at sixty, forty, or even while still a child.  

     All this emphasizes one simple point.  We need to live our lives to the fullest.  We ought always to take advantage of every opportunity to do good that comes our way “redeeming the time”  (Eph. 5.16; Col. 4.5).  Everyone of us is given the same twenty-four hours in a day, but not everyone uses those hours to their fullest potential.  Some are productive squeezing every moment he can to accomplish some good, while others squander their lives accomplishing nothing.  Methuselah was the oldest man to ever live leaving this earth at 969 years old  (Gen. 5.27), yet the inspired text does not record a single good thing that he ever did.

    But what can I do?  There is never a time when one does not have something that he can do.  No one should ever be at a loss of what to do, for opportunities are all around.   The question lies not in the lack of opportunities, but in the lack of desire to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves, or the desire to do something else.  Paul writes, “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all especially to those of the household of faith”  (Gasl. 6.10).  Even when there is no opportunity to do good to another there is always an opportunity to do good.  Spend time with the family.  Spend time in prayer.  Spend time reading the Bible.  Spend time in quiet meditation.

    There is time.  But that time will not always be available.  Take the time to do good before your time is up.               CLP