Ask God to make up for you the wasted years.

“What do you do in your free time?” Do you throw away hours in a make-believe world, trashy novels, gossip magazines, internet garbage?

“How you spend the time that is your own greatly determines what you think about. Have no doubt about it – Satan brings his greatest temptations to you when you have time on your hands. It takes you to discipline your character and proper goals to handle correctly the extra hours that’s given to you.”

You don’t want to look back over your life and see a life of wasted time, wasted days, wasted years? Even if you haven’t used your time very wisely for the Lord up to this point in your life Here’s what God can do for you: “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, the consuming locust, And the chewing locust. Joel 2:25

God was talking to the Israelites. There had been a period of time where the Israelites were unable to grow their fruits and vegetable gardens, which meant they were unproductive as farmers and people. But at one point God comes to them and says, “I am going to restore to you those lost years, the lost productivity, the lost income.

Understand Paul’s testimony it will absolutely pierce your soul. Make Gods words something you can’t get rid of in your heart. “In his final days Paul looked back over his life and testified, "I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT. I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH. NOW A CROWN OF RIGHTOUSNESS IS AWAITING ME.

You can say that with Paul! Even though there’s been a gap in your years, a time of wasting months - even years. A period when you was in deep dark sin, yes there was a time that you were drifting, and you was not at your best for Jesus.

Many can look back with regret at wasted years that have been eaten away by the locust! The fact is, the closer you get to the heart of Jesus, the more those wasted years grieve you. The more you fall in love with Christ, the more you cry out to Him within, "Dear Lord, how could I have hurt You so? How could I have been so deceived? I took years that belonged to You and threw them away! So many people live with a sense of loss. They live with regret, remorse, grief over what’s been lost. Yet, God makes to you this incredible promise. “I will restore to you the years the locusts have eaten…” The New American Standard says, "I will make up to you for the years... eaten."

How can God do this? Normally you are limited by time. But God is not limited by time the way you are. He invented time itself.

Here is an example of how God does it: at one point in Israel’s history God instituted a rule. He told them that they would plant their fruits and vegetables for 6 years, and then every seventh year they were not to do any work during that entire 7th year. So they work 6 and off 1. Work another 6 and off 1. And in Leviticus God answers one of their questions.  20 But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’ 21 Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. 22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year. – Leviticus 25:20-22
God only has to speak and He can make up to you the years you have lost. Ask God to make up for you the wasted years.