Finish What You Started

The New Year often brings thoughts of New Resolutions to start new diets, projects, relationships, jobs, etc. Why not try something different for a change?

Yesterday's message was entitled, Finish What You Have Started! Every year at this time we look at the New Year with expectations of hope, and perhaps, even some reservations, to commit ourselves to New Resolutions for a better lifestyle. But, this year I want to challenge you to do something different. Rather than making a new resolution to do something new or better, why not finish the resolution that you started last year. Instead of looking at new projects and trying to wipe the slate clean, look at the old plans, the old commitments, the old promises and purpose in your mind that you’re not going to start one more project, one more relationship, one more resolution UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED WHAT YOU STARTED!

Two gas company service men, a senior training Supervisor and a young trainee were out checking meters and parked their truck at the end of the alley and worked there way to the other end. At the last house a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as they checked her gas meter. As they finished the meter check the older supervisor challenged his younger co-worker to a foot race down the alley back to the truck.As they came running up to the truck, they realized that the lady from the last house was huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped and asked her what was wrong. Gasping for breath she said, "When I see two gas men running full speed away from my house, I figured I had better run too."

The lady wasn’t exactly sure why she was running, but she seemed to think that her life depended on it. Wouldn’t it be truly awesome if every person who claims a relationship with Christ, every individual who desires to be called a Christian, would run the race of faith as if their lives depended on it … because it truly does!

Commit to your dreams and goals. You may start out slowly but as the Lord said to Zechariah ‘do not despise the days of small things’. Take one step at a time and you will see yourself finishing what you started.