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I’m not always so good at finishing what I start. While I have gotten much better in this department simply by acknowledging and addressing my own deficiency, I still have a long way to go. There still exist a number of projects on my workbench that remain in various states of completion – projects that I started, but ran out of steam or in which I soon lost interest. I have a few piles in various places in my office of ideas or plans that remain in various states of completion. My Omnifocus, Evernote, Reminders, and various other task lists seem to be much better acquainted with “+” than they are with “✔️.” Maybe you can relate. Or, maybe people like me just drive achievers like you crazy.
The truth is, none of us will ever reach a point in life where we will be able to say that we’ve completed everything on a to-do list or reached every goal we set. In most areas of life, leaving something unfinished or incomplete will not be a matter of life or death. There is one area, however, where leaving matters unfinished or incomplete will make an eternal difference: our relationship with God. Most religions lay out a path to completion for you to follow, sort of like an academic counselor would lay out for a student to achieve a degree. The problem with most religions, however, is that they end up like many of the projects on my workbench: unfinished.
One religion is different: Christianity. Christianity is different because it proclaims that your salvation is a task that has already been completed by Jesus. For all people. Forever. Here is what the writer to the Hebrews stated about Jesus Christ:
Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. (Hebrews 7:25 NIV)”
You have enough unfinished projects, goals, tasks, and lists to keep you busy for this life. Let Jesus take care of the one task that needed completing to guarantee eternal life.