No Reserves - 3 - Tuesday February 02, 2016
Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life. – Proverbs 4:23
Give me your heart my son, and let your eyes delight in my ways. – Proverbs 23:26
Guard your heart. Today, God is going to speak to you! He’s speaking to you now; He spoke to you last night. He’s saying, “Sons and daughters, give me your hearts! Live before my face. Choose this every day.” Keep your heart “moist” before God. It should be soft and sensitive to the leading, the prompting, the guiding, and the directing of the Holy Spirit in your life. Choose to live before the face of God (“coram Deo”) on a day-by-day basis.
There’s a hero I read about in a biography, a man named William Borden. He lived in the early 1900s. In 1904 he graduated from high school when 16 years old; he came from a very wealthy family. His parents gave him a trip around the world for his high school graduation present. None of you have probably ever received that gift!
Borden went around the world, seeing all the people, especially in the world of Asia, and he felt the call of God on his life. William Borden said, “I want to be a missionary.” So he directed the course of the rest of his life to be on the mission field. One of his friends said, “A missionary? He’s wasting his life. Living for God, you’re wasting your life. Making him first in your life, you’re wasting your life.” Borden took his Bible and, on the back leaf of his Bible, he took his pen and wrote these words: “No Reserves.”
I too am all in. No reserves. I am going to live my life before the face of God. Will you do the same?
Submitted by:
Doug Brown
Faithwalkers East 2014
Joseph: Heroism in the Moral Choices,
One-Year Reading Plan:
Exodus 15:19-17:7
Matthew 22:1-33
Psalms 27:1-6
Proverbs 6:20-26
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