Just finish
We probably know someone who starts job after job and never finishes them. It may be a remodel at the home or jumping from job to job. Maybe we all have a little of this gene.
The coach of my favorite college football team has a mantra. Just finish. Not only is he referring to finishing the game or the season. He is referring to finishing each play! Finish! Do your best. Do what is expected of you. Give your best effort until the end. Don’t quit before the play is over. Don’t quit on your teammates. Finish the job.
Finished! What a great thing to be able to say at the end of a long and arduous project. I recently finished a kitchen remodel. The job that was supposed to take a month or so actually took about 5 months. But it is finished!
It is finished.
So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. John 19:30
This is the seventh and final saying of Jesus on the cross. He came to do the Father’s will and He completed the task.
Our mission is to do the Father’s will as well. So what is that will?
Matthew 5:16 tells us we are to glorify GOD through good works.
Galatians 6:10 tells us we are to do good to all men.
1 Peter 2:17 tells us to honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear GOD, and honor our leaders.
Luke 19:10 tells us Jesus’ mission was to seek and save the lost. Ours should be as well.
After a lengthy search, Solomon noted the conclusion to the whole matter when he wrote the words found in Ecclesiastes 12:13, Fear GOD and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.
We, like Paul, should live so that when our life is over here, we can say we have kept the faith.
John in Revelation 2:10 gives us this goal, be faithful unto death. We should be busy doing the Father’ will. Our time will run out someday. If we are found faithful, it is then we too can say, “It is finished!”