Finish

Finish

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

There is something satisfying about finishing what you start. Just this week I completed a building project started at home three months ago. It is good to be finished with that, but I also realize there are much greater works to be done, works done in the Lord.

God created us in Christ Jesus for good works. (Ephesians 2:10) Now, as I’ve said many times at Church, good works won’t save you, but you will do good works because you are saved. James tells us faith without works is dead, and dead faith is not saving faith. So as saved believers in Jesus we all have God given Christian work to do.

God certainly gave Paul a lot of work to do, and it was hard work. He spent years walking from city to city, spreading the Gospel and planting Churches. He faced much opposition to that work and was persecuted heavily, suffering much. Still, there came a day when Paul said, “I have finished the race.” Paul finished the work God gave him to do, and he must have felt great satisfaction in that.

But that brings us to a question. When this life is over, and we go home to meet our Savior, will we leave a lot of the work He’s given us unfinished? Are we going to be able to say, “I have finished the race,” or will we quit before we hit the finish line? I encourage you, whatever work it is that God has given you to do on His behalf, do it until you finish it.

Have a God Filled Week,
Brother Donnie