Sovereign Grace Church

They looked unto HIM, and were lightened:
and their faces were not ashamed

(PSALM 34:5)

A dear friend said to me recently that death was on his mind quite a bit. He could look at death without fear because he really believed that all that God required of him, He looked to His Son for. But he said that he would like to die with no regrets. He did not want to lie on his death-bed and regret how he treated anybody. It made me think of a story I once read about a young man who went overseas to be a missionary against his parent’s wishes. He believed God had called him to it. Three weeks after his arrival he died of a disease he caught the very first week he was there. A wasted life? His father went to the country to get his son’s belongings and bring them back. He opened his son’s Bible and found three things written….

“No reserve. No retreat. No regrets.”

Oh that these words would characterize our service for Christ! No reserve! No retreat! No regrets!