How does someone ‘buy time?’ This verse shows just how valuable and precious it is. John Gill wrote the following commentary on this verse regarding our use of time. "…it is not to be trifled with, and squandered away, and be lost, as it may be; for it can neither be recalled nor prolonged: and taking it for an opportunity of doing good to ourselves or others. It signifies that no opportunity of discharging our duty to God and man, of attending on the Word and ordinances of the Gospel, and to the private and public exercises of religion, of gaining advantage to our own souls, or of gaining the souls of others, and doing good either to the bodies or souls of men, should be neglected. All risks should be run, and means used to enjoy it."

Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course!

Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow." Galatians 6:10– "As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith." Romans 13:11– "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."