It is not how you start but how you finish that counts

As we come to the end of another year, it is a good time to so some self-reflecting.

            Psalm 4:4        Meditate within your heart on your bed and be still.

            2 Cor 13:5       Examine yourselves…

This is a good time to do that.  Are you satisfied with you as your year comes to a close?  Have you accomplished some of your goals?  Have you grown closer to the LORD?  That is the most important reflection, considering we are all one year closer to meeting Him!

Regardless of how you feel about the year as it comes to a close, I have good news for you.  It is not how you start but how you finish that counts.

Let me use a sports analogy.  The 2004 American League Championship Series found the Boston Red Sox down 0-3 to the New York Yankees.  The Yankees had to win only one more game in the next four to win the series.  Game 3 of the series had seen the Yankees beat the Red Sox scoring the 2^nd most runs ever in a postseason game.  Everyone considered the series to be over.  However, it’s not how you start but how you finish that counts.  For only the second time ever, the Red Sox overcame the 0-3 start and won 4 straight games to take the series.                             

It is not how you start but how you finish that counts.  Maybe that’s what Solomon meant when he penned these words found in Ecclesiastes 7:8.

                 The end of a thing is better than its beginning.

So regardless of how this year started or what happened throughout the year, let us finish the year on a good note.  For that matter, let us finish our race on a good note.

Revelation 2:10 reads, be faithful unto death and I will give you a crown of life.

If you don’t have an active, obedient faith in the LORD, that would be the place to start.  The rest of the sentence from 2 Corinthians 13:5 reads…Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith.  Indeed, that is of paramount importance and my prayer for you.