October 28: Redeem the Time

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O that thou hadst hearkened... then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Isaiah 48:1818O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: (Isaiah 48:18)
SA 48:18{Oh, how much we have missed by not placing all at His disposal! What might He not have done with the moments freighted with self or loaded with emptiness, which we have carelessly let drift by! Oh, what might have been if they had all been kept for Jesus! How He might have filled them with His light and life, enriching our own lives that have been impoverished by the waste, and using them in far-spreading blessing and power!
Take us, Lord, oh, take us truly, mind and soul and heart and will;
Empty us and cleanse us throughly, then with all Thy fullness fill.
Make us in Thy royal palace, vessels worthy for the King;
From Thy fullness fill our chalice, from Thy never failing spring.
Father, by this blessed filling, dwell Thyself in us, we pray;
We are waiting, Thou art willing, fill us with Thyself today!