It is not how you begin but it is how you end. The ability to finish is the key to proper transitions in life. God will never trust a person in a higher level of living if that person has not been faithful in completing his objectives in the prior level.
Understanding the value of finishing is paramount. A person, who diminishes the ethics of finishing, is one who will never transition properly to their completed purpose. When one achieves a completed purpose, one dies. Purpose is always consummated at death. One’s destiny is a destination. Destination is arrived via a journey. Life is that journey and completed purpose is the end of that journey.
How do we get there? How can we get to the place when we know we have accomplished everything that has been assigned to us?
Those are hard yet very legitimate questions. The answers are difficult. But there is one answer. It is in developing the habit of FINISHING.
Our life in Christ is a series of acts of obedience to directives that are given to us by God. Label it whatever you want to label it… your calling… your mission. It is exactly that, an instruction given by God that will require less of you and more of him. It will require faithfulness and the giving of your life. We all are given this. It may be in full-time ministry, part-time ministry, volunteer ministry, market place ministry, etc. Nevertheless, it is a directive given to a person that becomes part of their identity. And the completion of this directive will only cause an evolution of purpose. Obtaining the full confidence in knowing one’s directive is pivotal, knowing how to complete that directive is imperative.
Finishing is a habit. Habits determine our future… The practice of finishing is a learned habit. Let’s finish well IMPACT CHURCH. Let’s be finishers in all we do!
