Let's FINISH the work!

We profess to be people of the Bible looking for our Lord’s soon coming. If this is true, we can no longer do business as usual. We can no longer do ministry as usual. We can no longer live our lives and build our careers as usual. We can no longer pray and study our Sabbath school lesson as usual. We cannot plan to be here for another 25 or 50 years as others do. We are not here on earth just to work, but to finish God’s work.

You know, there is a difference. When many people work, they often don’t worry if the work is finished or not. They are just on the job to put in their hours, and then they clock out and go home. But when our goal is to finish the work, we have a specific target. And everything we have in life is put on the line for the accomplishment of this goal. With or without a paycheck, we are here to see the task completed. We will keep moving forward, faithful to the finish line!

The greatest need of the church today is not more programs; it’s not more finances, not more institutions, not more media ministries or publishing houses, as important as all these things are. Our greatest need, our most urgent need, our most pressing need, is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Zechariah the prophet states, “’Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts” (Zech. 4:6).

Time is running out. Probation is about to close. Let’s put away all “Christian pretense” and get serious about our calling. We waste much too much time in needless talk about superficial trivialities when we could be praying or working for the Lord. We only have a short time granted us. Let’s not waste another moment.  

Joel 2:17-18 says, “Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.”