Finishing What’s Begun

 

“…being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus”

—Philippians 1:6b

Do you know someone who starts projects but seldom finishes them before he or she begins another new project?

Dr. Anthony Gregorc identifies this as one characteristic of the Concrete-Random Mind Style™. C-Rs like “new”—they like new tasks, new ideas, new books, new challenges, new friends. But, they often move on to the “new” without finishing what they have so eagerly begun.

Then, the other three Mind Styles have to pick up the pieces and try to finish what the C-Rs have left undone.

Fortunately for those of us who believe in God, He has not left His work in us unfinished. The Apostle Paul explains this in Philippians 1:3-6:

I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

God began our salvation when, before the foundation of the world, He chose us to belong to Him. The Lord Jesus continued our salvation when He died on the cross in our place and when He rose from the grave. He continues that work through the Holy Spirit each day by guiding us along the pathway of obedience He has laid out before us.

Let us rejoice this day that we never walk alone. God is always at work in and through us, completing His plan for us that He started before the world began.

 

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