The Project

         Sometimes a package will come with instructions for assembly and may even give you an estimation of how long it will take to assemble the item. Some months ago, I purchased a “cat tree' for our kitten. It had ample instructions but I also found a video on the internet of the same item with a lady putting it together. It even began with opening the box and taking out all of the pieces. I watched as she went through the whole process even when she made a mistake and had to go back and repeat one step. As I mentioned once before, I put the tree together and made the same mistake even though I knew and was watching for that particular step. The complexity of an item will require more time. While in my last years in the Navy, I decided to build a transmitter and receiver from scratch. That is, all of the parts were in the box but I just had to follow the instructions given in the booklet. This project actually took days to complete as every resister, capacitor and wire had to be soldered to the right spot or it wouldn't work. About a month later, both items were working and I became a “ham” radio operator. 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:”

        Some projects do take a lot more time than others and this is one that really takes a “lifetime” to complete. Our lives are filled with lessons that need to be learned in order to shape our character. C. H. Spurgeon remarks on this passage with the following comment: “Holy Scripture does not regard a man as perfect when the soul is perfected, it regards his body as being a part of himself; and as the body will not rise again from the grave till the coming of the Lord Jesus, when we shall be revealed in the perfection of our manhood, even as he will be revealed, that day of the second coming is set as the day of the finished work which God hath begun.” (Spurgeon) this project goes on even after we are in the grave and at the appointed time, our bodies will be new and equipped with things we could never imagine such as perfect hearing and perfect eyesight. What a glorious time that will be. No more need for aspirin or cough syrup or home remedies for poison ivy. We will have perfect bodies. The amazing though for me is what Paul says about it in that we can be confident in what God is doing and how long it is going to take. We don't have to be concerned about God missing a step. His work in us is a perfect work and we can also be confident that His perfect work will be completed on schedule. You might just feel a little under the weather at times or sitting there wondering what God is doing in your life. Rest in the thought of the above verse. He is working in each of us and we can reflect back and say, “Please be patient with me, God is not finished with me yet.” Praise God today for the work that He is doing in each of our lives.