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Commitment
“My son, give Me thine heart” (Proverbs 23:26).
When we are in the days of our youth, it is so easy to give our hearts to having fun, or getting better at sports, or improving our education, or getting a good job and establishing a career. But the Lord wants your heart, and he wants it totally. Only He can fill it to the brim. He may allow you to get on the ball team, or become valedictorian. But first and above all else He wants your heart.
Solomon also wrote, “I withheld not my heart from any joy” (Ecclesiastes 2:10). But across it all he also wrote, “Behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit” (Ecclesiastes 2:22). He found that the things of this world did not satisfy! Remember, the world is too small to fill the human heart. Only the One who made us can truly and unequivocally fill that void.
Don’t waste the best years of your life, by not giving the Lord the full devotion of your heart. Be like Daniel, who as a young man “purposed in his heart” (Daniel 1:8), or like Ezra, who, “had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord” (Ezra 7:10).
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