Unfinished Projects

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I have many unfinished projects laying around my house. Quilts I started and never finished. Writings that I started and  they sit on my laptop, and piles of paperwork waiting to be filed. I have some good intentions that I never followed through on in my life.

However, the one thing in my life that I don't want to leave unfinished is the ministry that the Lord has given to me. That nudge from the Holy Spirit to keep pressing on and finish my race is the thing that motivates me each day. 

There are many distractions that threaten to derail the completion of the task and to veer me off course. Things such as worries about my family or other issues, distractions going on in the world,  my own failings at times, other people's opinions about what I should or shouldn't be doing, and on it goes. These distractions can keep me unfocused or wanting to throw in the towel. 

And yet, I want to press on and continue to follow the path that God has given me. He has given me a task to do in my life and I want to do it well and to carry it on to completion. 

Not everyone is called into full-time ministry. And yet, everyone who confesses Christ is called to represent Him in whatever context we find ourselves. We are all called to share the Good News of the gospel. We are to live our lives in a way that points to Him and what He has done in our life. 

This is one thing we don't want to leave undone. Complete the ministry. Run the course and finish well. 

Acts 20:24 ~ 

I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

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