Time is God's First Test of Stewardship
Why Stewarding Time Determines What We Multiply
This weekend, while celebrating a wedding, a simple statement cut through the noise:
Time is not ours. It belongs to God. That sentence reframed everything for me.
I often talk about stewarding money, influence, opportunity, and resources. But time is the first and most revealing asset God entrusts to us. It is the only one we cannot store, recover, or refinance. Once a second is spent, it is gone forever. And yet Scripture is clear: God gives time with expectation, not sentiment.
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” — Ecclesiastes 3:1
Time is not random. It is apportioned. Assigned. Seasoned with purpose.
Last October, my wife Denise began a simple but profound practice. She stopped treating her calendar as her own. Before filling it, she surrendered it. Each week, she intentionally offers her time back to God and asks a single question: How do You want to spend this? Not what fits. Not what feels urgent. What He wants. That practice has reshaped how she thinks about time. To me, it reframes the calendar not as a control system, but as a stewardship ledger. Time stopped being something to defend and became something to deploy in obedience.
I have long lived with the conviction that I must maximize my time. Not rush it. Not overschedule it. But steward it with intention. Because maximizing time is simply another way of multiplying the resources God has lent me.
Every minute poured into God compounds wisdom.
Every hour invested in marriage multiplies strength.
Every day spent with children compounds legacy.
Every season stewarded in health multiplies capacity.
Every focused block of work multiplies impact.
Time, like capital, always compounds. The only question is what it is compounding into.
Scripture warns us not to treat time casually:
“Anyone who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” — James 4:17
This is not about morality alone. It is about stewardship. Delayed obedience is not neutral. Wasted time is not harmless. Unused opportunity does not sit idle. It decays.
This is where bitcoin quietly becomes one of the most honest teachers of time ever created.
Bitcoin is built on time preference. Every block arrives on schedule. Every halving enforces patience. There are no shortcuts. No accelerants. No rewrites. Bitcoin rewards those who think in years instead of days, cycles instead of headlines, legacy instead of leverage.
Bitcoin does not reward speed. It rewards discipline. It does not reward reaction. It rewards conviction. In this way, bitcoin exposes the same thing time exposes: whether we are living for immediacy or eternity.
Scripture captures this alignment perfectly:
“The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.” — Proverbs 21:5
Haste is not ambition. It is impatience wearing confidence. Diligence, by contrast, is faith expressed over time.
Bitcoin does not create long-term thinking. It reveals who already has it. Time works the same way. It does not change character. It amplifies it.
We do not own our time any more than we own our breath. Both are gifts. Both are measured. Both are expected to produce fruit.
The Kingdom does not ask us to do more. It asks us to multiply what we already have.
And the first place that multiplication must show up is how we steward our days. Because time, like truth, never lies. It always tells the story of what we truly value.
Prayer 🙏⏳🔥
Dear God, Thank You for the gift of time measured by You, sustained by You, and entrusted to us with purpose.
Forgive us where we have spent casually what You gave intentionally. Teach us to steward our seconds, minutes, and seasons with wisdom and courage.
Align our time with Your priorities. Multiply what we invest in You, in family, in health, and in calling.
May our days produce fruit that remains. May our time reflect our faith. May everything we build honor Your Kingdom. In Jesus’ name, Amen. ✝️🕊️🔥