At a recent graduation ceremony for homeschool graduates, one of the speakers made reference to William Borden and the famous quote attributed to him "No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets". We talked about giving every day, every moment our all for Christ. The apostle Paul wrote in Colossians 3:22-24,
"Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God; And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ."
Today, we do the same again, during our devotions:
READ all of Ephesians
WRITE 7-10 verses in our journal
MEMORY verse practice
And read about William Borden, thinking on this: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets
Today and yesterday, Ryan and I were talking about time, wasting time, squeezing the most out of each day and remembering who we are and why we are here. He mentioned that he had gotten away from memorizing any scripture, so this week we are working on Ephesians 2:10 together:
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."
This verse is now posted in Mark's office on the bulletin board for everyone to encourage one another, and memorize it. We go back to first things...the things we did at the start of our faith in Christ.
This month's bible study for us will be the book of Ephesians. Monday through Friday we will write out a portion of the book of Ephesians until we have the whole book written out in our journal. We did this with Galatians and Phillipians last year, and I recently ran across a note from my middle school son about how glad he was that I MADE him do that. Phillipians was a special blessing for me. I hadn't realized how much of it I had already hidden in my heart, as I am not good at remembering chapter and verse.
