239. Good Work Completed
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
God will finish what He started: that’s a sure promise. God did not initiate anything and then quit on it, never finishing the project. Anything! Even that which Sin and Evil stopped, God is restoring it and He will finish the job. God performs! Count on it; be confident of it.
And be confident of this very thing: He began a good work in you, and He will perform it, that is, compete the job; the good work in you will be finished One Day. He will never quit working on you until the Day that Jesus returns. Every day that we are alive on the earth is a day that God is doing something to grow us on to perfection.And He will not stop until the job is finished. The Lord will present to Himself a finished and polished product.
That character that He started to build in us upon conversion will be developed until it is fully righteous. The behavior that He began working on will be perfected until it is holy. The life thatHe birthed will grow abundantly unto fullness. The personalityHe renewed in us will be polished until it becomes exactly what God designed it to be.
Each redeemed believer is a project for the Lord. It is not a project for us to perform, to try hard to improve our lives. It is God’s work; He began it and He will work on it until it is finished. And God’s work is a good work. We may find some fascination is watching God at work, but we don’t really understand why He is doing what He is doing. Instead of thanking Him for everything and believing His promises that He is doing something good, we would rather complainabout life in the wilderness, about the cruelty of the world, about the sins of other people, and finally about God. “Why? Why doesn’t He make it better?”
We, as sinners, continue to put obstacles in the way of God’s work. We quit; we stop, we faint, we get weary, we give up. But thank God we have this promise. He says, “I fix up what you messed up, I clean up what you dirtied, I write straight on your crooked lines; and no matter how much you mess it up I am just going to keep on working and fixing it up (unless you order me to stop). You may want to quit, but I never will. So just be patient, I’m not finished with you yet.”
We may say, “Just do it.” God says, “Fear not, I am doing it.”