Finished

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Finishing a project has not always been one of my “forte’s” so to speak.  I could take you to a visual picture of uncompleted model airplanes, battle ships and half painted models as well as other items that were not finished, at least the way they should have been in the first place.  I dabbled in oil painting for a period in my life which produced a number of paintings, some of which were finally placed outside of a dumpster between Christiansburg, VA and Pilot, VA as we prepared to go to Spain.  A few of them survived but a close scrutiny of the pictures might reveal when I got tired of them and wished them to be finished.  When you are the artist, you get the job of determining when it is finished and when it is not done yet.  Some ideas are determined to be “half baked” which could be another example of a work that was not done to begin with, or at least the thought of doing a work.   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:”  This has long been one of my favorite passages as it shows that God is just the opposite when it comes to finishing a project.  The prime example here is we ourselves.  There are however, many other exampled in our surrounding that depict how God has completed that which He began in the first place such as the Bombardier Beetle, the iris flower, Pleiades, the arrangement of the solar system and the distance to the sun, the chemical makeup of “water, old H2O and the blood system in our own bodies.  The list is endless as we look around us and see God’s projects, all of them finished and completed even when we don't understand each and every part of them.  In the end, we can rest assured in what God has planned for us and the rest of our lives.  Oh, we don’t see all of it yet as we are on the wrong side of the tapestry.  God, however, is on the right side and knows the picture even as it unfolds before His eyes.  The pain, the grief, the joy, the surprise and many other things all make up the excitement of our lives which are still under construction.  So, what do you have to fear?  What anxieties keep you from good sleep at night?  Giving it all to the Lord as He works His miracles in our lives should be the comfort that we need.  I know, it is what I need.  God is working the work in my life and in your lives  that make us who we are and what we will become.  Praise God today for His working in your life and in all of our lives.  As my friends once said, “God is working a 7.7 billion piece puzzle every second.”