It Ain't Over Till It's Over

Philippians 1:6  being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

 

 

 

This is a piece of Scripture that never grows old, it is just as important to remember this today, as it was yesterday, as it will be next year. In short, God is not done with you yet. We are works in progress right up until the Lord shows back up, or we draw our last earthly breath. I say it is important to remember, because we all fall into a rut form time to time. It might last a day, a week or a year….the length is typically dictated by you. We think “this is it”, “I have come as far as I can”, “I have grown as close to the Lord as I can” …my favorite….”I have done all the Lord has asked me to do”. These lies are meant to do one thing and one thing only, slow us down.  

 

We will never accomplish everything, because the list is never finished, tasks such as spread the Good News, Love God, Love your neighbor, there is no expiration date on them. There is not some point that we reach that we get to cross that off the list. We pull it off today, tomorrow is coming with the next sunrise, we have to do it again. AN amazing thing happens when we greet the sunrise with the list in hand, we change, we become different people, we become more like the Lord, and less like the worldly person we were. When we set our feet on the path of the Lord, when we strive to stay on that path for the entire day, you will not end the day the same as you were when you started it. God will have moved in your life, and He has continued His good work in you for the day.

 

We see people we think of as Godly, or righteous, or maybe even people who are just really fighting the good fight, and we think “I want to be like that, but I can’t”. “They were raised that way”. “They went to school”, “they had the advantages”, I don’t have that kind of time” Guess what? Each person that you see like that, started off where you are at now. In some cases they started off well behind you…..(I know I started off at the back of the pack….truth be told, I think the pack had a good head start!) The difference is that those people you see, they did not buy into the lie that they were done, or that they could not go any further. They are confident that God is going to continue His good works through them. That is what I want you to understand. We are nowhere near the finish line! God has amazing things in store for each of us, and He wants us to see those things daily….yes daily. Each day we choose to regress to where we were, stay where we are at, or move forward, even if it is only one small step, we move forward. We quit looking at where we are at, and start looking at where we need to be. Will you extend the love of Christ today? Will you offer up forgiveness, compassion, help, and time? Will you allow God to continue His good works in you today? He has started building a temple within you, will you allow the construction, or will you halt the construction? Be confident in knowing that what God starts, He sees through to the finish. It all comes down to the labor He is working with. Will we work as hard as His Son, or will we look to cut a deal like Judas? I will tell you the truth, the harvest is plentiful, and the workers are few, God is working in you, around you, and through you. You will not finish this day unchanged…..it ain’t over till it’s over.

 

 

God Bless,

Brian Thetford

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The Ridge Fellowship

 

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