He Will Be Faithful To Complete It

We Broke Ground After Clearing Land

In the fall of 2011, some of us began a project that is still in the works. My mother gave us a piece of forest on the banks of a small lake  and we began to build a family retreat there. It is our dream to have a place where loved ones and friends can relax in the every-changing beauty of "The County".

Wayne, our son Jonathan, and sometimes my brother Brian felled innumerable trees -- some sixty feet high or more. I participated in loading and hauling the firewood, and several helped with tending the daily fires to burn the brush that accumulated. We worked hard, but it was with an eye on the goal -- a "CAMP" -- nothing fancy, but a dream that I had in my heart from the time I was about fourteen years old. The building is up and finished on the outside, now, with very little outside help. This has been a family project. We have no water or electricity yet, but we and some grandchildren spent a few very cold nights last fall sleeping there on air mattresses.

As I thought about our dream retreat, I wondered how much will be realized in our life time. We don't know. We both turn seventy this year, and we don't have as much energy as we did last year, even. Our frail, human bodies and minds are limited. So are our resources, and time will tell how much of the dream becomes a reality wihile we are still here!

With God, things are so different! God is all powerful and totally free. He has no limit of resources. Time is not a factor. Whatever He chooses to do, He finishes it -- completely and perfectly. That gives us cause for great rejoicing and thankfulness, for He is still working on those of us who have been born anew into His family. He is building us as individuals -- sanctifying us, making us more like Jesus as we walk with Him day by day. And He is building His Church -- not with wood, cement, and glass. But He is building a living organism, composed of transformed people. . . He is the corner stone and we are the bricks and mortar of HIS CHURCH, His people!

When I look at myself, I see the blemishes, the warts, the scars. But GOD sees me as His finished project! What He intends to do in my life (and yours, if you are a Christian) is as good as DONE.
Philippians 1:6-7a says, "I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.  It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace. . ."

God never quits, never neglects, never forgets. He ALWAYS does what He sets out to do -- not in our time frame, but in His. I look forward to an amazing future with Him.