Finish What You Started
2 Timothy 4:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
7 I have fought the good (worthy, honorable, and noble) fight,
I have finished the race, I have kept (firmly held) the faith.
Fear can be a dangerous and counter-productive dynamic
when we allow it to have strength in our lives.
It can hold us back, but not only can that it keeps us from completing
task, assignments, it can become a barrier that prevents us from coming into
and completing the call of God upon our lives. I am very familiar with fear and
its ability to keep me from completing things, to include things that concern
ministry. I have even allowed the fear
of people to dominate my life and keep me from accomplishing goals or even
addressing certain issues that may have arisen as it pertained to our
relationship. Thank God, the Lord
allowed me to see these things, so that I could get free from it. The one thing I do not have fear of is
people, and in many cases God is given me strength and the ability to run right
over things that I used to be afraid to face and accomplish what needs to get
done. I had to come to the fact that I
would never finish much if I did not hold on to faith, focus and fortitude. If
I did not have a firm grip on who God said that I was, I would find myself in a
sea of unfinished business, projects and an unfinished life.
God is calling many of us to new things, new places in Him,
but we are scared to step out in Him and in them and face the process that will
bring us to a place of completion and success.
We will start a process, or begin a journey with the Lord and quickly
fall by the wayside, because we allow things to distract us or we allow
thoughts to begin to take us away from the task at hand. There are times when we look at what God is
asking us to do and we become intimidated by its magnitude and the
responsibility that comes with saying yes, or completing the call or walking
out the gifting upon us. We will convince ourselves it is better to quit than
it is to keep going or that we will save ourselves the embarrassment of not
completing things and just give up really before we actually get started. I started working out months ago, and I was
afraid because of the weight I wanted to lose. I began but things moved slowly,
but as I approached a more intensive work out program the fear and anxiety of
it, caused me to become a bit intimidated, but I had determined that my weight
loss, health and fitness was and is more important to me than the pain after a
workout, the intimidation of a run and the complexity of a boot camp work
out.
You
see the way to finish is to see the importance of what you are called to do, to
see that being in the will of God and living the best and most successful life
is more important than anything you may have to encounter on your way. It is have a firm hold on the fact that the
faith that you have is enough to see you through, and get you to a place where
you finish what you have started and complete the process. Completing those
things that feel overwhelming only means that we need to lean more on God and
less on us, that we need to look to Him to find out exactly what is He wants
and what we need to make it to where He wants us to be, to become fearless and
to be able to pull out all that lies within us to become a person that is
successful according to God’s standard and vision. A person that doesn’t just
start a thing, but finishes what they start and lives a life that is filled
with the joys of completion.
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