Have you ever quit on something?
One winter day, about year ago, I decided that I wanted to build a model of a viking ship. I went online, found one, bought glue, paints, paintbrushes, the whole kit!
I had not built a model in years. But now I was more mature, I could take my time and really do a good job. It would be relaxing, I assured myself.
Well, I got about halfway through and realized it was far too much work. Especially when it came to the little strings I needed to loop all around for sails and such. I started putting off the progress, days became weeks, became months...
A year later, it still sits on a shelf, unfinished.
I gave up on it. I simply did not have the passion to finish what I started.
Yesterday Preacher Mike quoted this scripture, "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." Phil 1:6 (NIV)
Remember that day you told the Lord your life was his? Remember when you surrendered it all to him?
At times we may feel like that ship, sitting on a shelf unfinished. But God never stops working, God remembers when we gave him our lives. He has been working, nonstop, from that day forward.
"God is not human, that he should lie,
not a human being, that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?" Numbers 23:19
Sometimes we may feel like God is finished with us, but the simple truth is, he is just getting started.
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"Let no one come to you without feeling better and happier when they leave"
Mother Teresa 