No Reserve, No Retreat, No Regrets

Excerpt from "Are you a follower of Jesus Christ?" by Billy Graham, Urbana 87

http://www.urbana.org/articles/are-you-a-follower-of-jesus-christ

"Just before World War I a young man arrived in Cairo, Egypt. He was 25 years old, a graduate of Yale University and Princeton Seminary. He was tall, handsome, athletic, intelligent, single and very rich. His name was William Borden, and he was the heir to one of America's great fortunes. But he had tamed his back on all the privilege and all the luxury and all the money that could have been his and was on his way to China as a missionary.

But shortly after arriving in Cairo he became critically ill with cerebral meningitis, and in a matter of days he was dead. Many students back in America asked, "Was it worth it?" Later his biographer wrote that Borden had said, "No reserve, no retreat, no regrets." There was no hesitation in his dedication to the Lord What about you? No reserve, no holding anything back. No regrets - never taming back from the path God has set before you. No regrets - joyously knowing that God's way is always best.

There are a thousand things you can do with your life; a thousand ways you can spend it. But how many of them will enable you to say at the end of your life "no reserve, no retreat, no regrets"? There is only one way you can truly say that, and that is to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ.