God Plus One

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever do not abandon the works of your hands. - Psalm138:8

In his book, The Treasure Principle, Randy Alcorn tells the story of his family’s trip to Egypt. While driving through the hot and dusty streets of Cairo, they passed a graveyard for American missionaries and decided to go see it. One sun-scorched tombstone in particular caught their attention. At the top it read: William Borden, 1887-1913.What makes Borden so interesting is that he was a Yale graduate, and the heir to great wealth. Yet he rejected a life of ease in exchange for the life of a missionary in Egypt. He gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars to missions, and after only four months of ministry in Egypt, he contracted spinal meningitis and died at age twenty-five. At the bottom of William Borden’s tombstone, it says, “Apart from faith in Christ, there is no explanation for such a life.” If you are a follower of Christ, you can expect that in obedience to that still, small voice of the Holy Spirit, you will do some things that make no earthly sense but are spiritually significant.

Even those who resist Him carry out His will without realizing that they are doing so. - Thomas Merton

(Daily Devotion: From New Life Every Day)

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