Time is like money, except that you can never replace it or recover it once it is spent. Ephesians 5 admonishes us as believers to -redeem the time because the days are evil.- This command does apply to our minutes, hours and days, but the Greek word Paul chose to use for time here speaks more toward making use of the one great opportunity we have been given called life. You get one chance to redeem your life--to save it from being wasted on things that hold no eternal value. From the time of your salvation until your physical death, we have an opportunity to invest our life into both our own eternity and the eternity of others. Unfortunately, too many of us miss the smaller opportunities as we get distracted by things that do not matter.