Tonight, while traveling to the hospital to sit with my youngest son, I was listening to Family Life Today. The special guest was Pastor Chip Ingram, the author of "Living on the Edge".
Being a former poker player, Chip said something that caught my attention. Here is a paraphrase. Life is like a poker game. You are sitting at the table with all your chips in front of you. Instead of having stacks of $50, $100 or even $500 chips; you have stacks of chips labeled home, family, hobbies, finances, etc.
Just like watching a poker match live or on TV, it does not get interesting until one of the players says, "I'm all in!" That's when the crowd grows anxious. That's when the announcer's voices really show the tenseness of the moment.
Once you go "all in" you can't take back your chips. You have to wait until the cards are dealt to see how the hand will end. So it is with our walk. Many of us "play" the game of Christianity. We've won a few hands - lost a few. We might even be sitting on a pretty good stack of chips. But have we ever gone "all in"? Have we ever taken all our chips (family, finances, and fame) and pushed them into the center of God's table and told him "I'm all in"?
I encourage you today to go all in with God. As Chip so eloquently put it, we might have to lose a few to win a few. God might have to take our 'all in' offer, weed out some of the bad and replace it with good. In the end, we will win.
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