Finished

Have you ever noticed that we are given 24 hours each day... 720 hours in a week... 8760 hours a year... and we think we have a right to use each moment for our pleasure. For those who work, how many of us watch the clock in anticipation of the end of the workday so we can use our time as we choose? I could even be caught during hours of my workday using it for my pleasure... I look at my job as a calling & as a career & as a blessing & as a ministry & as a mission... & as a job. My pleasure is to serve the LORD.

Have you ever thought about those who would love to get out of bed to work, or to turn back the clock to recapture their working days. What about those whose job was ripped from their capable fingers because there was no money to pay them, or they turned 50+ and were traded in for a younger model? What about those who serve you and serve me... would they rather have a job as good as the one you whine and complain about? I know, I am ashamed of myself, too. It is pitiful how I have the best job in the world, yet all I think about is getting off at the end of the day or the weekend or the holidays...

Have you ever noticed that we are given time and we use it for our folly? Time wasted in front of a device, such as the one I am tapping away on as I think. (Although, I hope I am being productive with my tapping.) Television, computers, games, movies, the list goes on. Hours given away like an unappreciated or unwanted gift. Wasted where production could be realized. What could we do if we learned more or gave more or sang more or thought more or listened more or shared more or... You name it, what could you do less of to be more productive?

Have you ever given thought to the 24 hours we take for granted?

In reality time is the moments when we live punctuated by rest. Many of us don't use it as God intended. We waste more time than we have a right to. 

Have you ever realized that Jesus "finished" His ministry in three years. He was more productive in His three years than thousands of the rest of us in a lifetime. 

• Was it because He knew what was coming? It's likely. 
• Was it because He had a mission? That's likely, too. 

But I think it was really because He did not take even one minute of His human living for granted. He is, was, and always will be obedient to Our Father. Jesus came to do the business God sent Him to do. He was obedient unto the cross. Then, to give us teeny, tiny, little creations supernatural power from ON HIGH He sent the Holy Spirit. 

We do not need to live, and breathe, and do from our own strength... We have Jesus.

2 Behold, God is my salvation... Isaiah 12:2

10 ...by the name of Jesus Christ... 12 nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men... Acts 4:10-12

13b ...in Whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise... Ephesians 1:13b