Finished Projects

        Every now and then we begin a project.  We start and it moves forward and then begins to slow down.  If we are not careful, we will lose interest in it and it stops completely.  You may have a list of unfinished projects where you started to do something and then it pushed aside.  We might use the phrase, "Oh, its on the back burner."  Things on the back burner are often left there for years.  I have one project that I started about 5 years ago that comes to the front burner every now and then.  It is a written copy of my life or as we might say, "an autobiography."  Since I am no where close to being famous, who would care about my life story.  My excuse is that it is just a record of my life for my family.  We will see if it ever gets finished.  Philippians 1:6 says, " Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:"   
       Fortunately for us, God always finishes what He starts.  Genesis 1 through 11 is a good example of that.  We often think about the big things that God has done especially when we are looking up into a starry sky or at the Grand Canyon.  On a personal note, however, one of the things God is working on is a special project  for each and everyone of us.  The Apostle Paul emphasized this in the above verse how that God is constantly working on us.  Every day that goes by includes another chapter in your life.  It would seem to us that 80 years  is a long time, but to God it is merely a drop in the bucket, or even less than that.  When we look at the things in which we have been involved we don't see the big picture.  God, on the other hand, knows what we were, what we are and what He has in store for us in the future.  We might know that God is working on us and some days there is more accomplished than on others.  Paul says however, that we can be "confident" of this very fact that He will get the project done in His timing.   So, keep looking to the Master Builder as He writes another chapter in your life today.  God knows every stitch in the fabric of your life and He knows every shaping of your lump of clay.  Praise God today that He is still working on your own project.  As some have said, "Please Be Patient With Me, For God Is Not Finished With Me Yet."