day no. 15,659: a second saved is a second burned

In reading The Art of Manliness, Manvotionals: Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues by Brett McKay, I came across the following quote,

"Time: with it, all is possible; without it, nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours! It is yours.... No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.... You cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt! You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow; it is kept for you. If one can't contrive to live on a certain income of money, one earns a little more --- or steals it. One doesn't necessarily muddle one's life because one can't quite manage on a thousand pounds a year. But if one cannot arrange that an income of twenty-four hours a day shall exactly cover all proper items of expenditure, one does muddle one's life definitely." — Arnold Bennet, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

My wife often says, "Live your priorities" in referring to this principle. You must budget your hours. Just like you must tell your money where you want it to go, so you must tell your time where to be spent. If you don't, it will still be spent. You can't save some for later. You can't borrow against tomorrow. You can't make more of it, but you can make the most of it.

Ephesians 5:15-17

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

You can turn a profit on your time, but it's fruit is not the same as its root. The reward of time well sown is not 30, 60 or 100 fold return. Time is spent at the exchange rate of sixty seconds per minute regardless of investment strategy. Some will get more out of their time, but no one gets more time per day as their reward. A penny saved may be a penny earned, but a second saved is merely a second burned. 

Ecclesiastes 9:11
Time and chance happens to them all.

Matthew 6:27
Which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?