greenbaggins
Puritan Board Doctor
Giving our life to God is to be made without holding anything back. Thomas Manton explains:
When you give up yourselves to God, it must be without bounds and reservations: 'That ye may stand perfect and complete in the will of God,' Col. iv. 42. That was his prayer for them: and, Acts xiii.22, 'I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he shall fulfil all my will.' We should so perfectly obey, as if we had no will of our own, not reserving a property in anything. Our thoughts are not our own to dispose, nor our desires nor delights, but as God will. The least sin reserved is a pledge of the devil's interest and right in us. And therefore give up all to God, resign up yourselves wholly to him, as remembering that every motion, every thought, every affection, is under a rule, and in every action we should say, Will God have this to be done, yea or no? from The Works of Thomas Manton, volume 1, p. 133.
