I remember once asking a nephew of mine, who I'd heard was an excellent artist, when he was starting out his drawing, "what are you making today?" His answer confounded me, he said, "I, don't know yet..." his voice drifting off in contemplation...
I was confounded, I was confused, I mused over this answer so many times that that young 10 year old boy is now a young man with a baby of his own, and yet, I'm still musing over that statement and interaction, "I ... don't know yet..."
How many times in your life do you start out with something and you think, where is this going... "I... don't know yet..."
It dawned on me this week, probably later than everyone else in the world I realise that, but, I have to voice it anyway, that, when you start a project you should work at it full steam, whether you know where it will be tomorrow or not. I tend to give half my heart to this in case tomorrow needs me somewhere else, I don't think I've been burnt by it, but I do think there are many things, many areas, where, if I'd given my all from the start I'd be in a totally different situation by now.
Even in some instances where I'm waiting for someone else to give the go ahead or make the final decision, if I'd been more like James who said the double-minded get nothing, I'd have made the decision and have to live with the consequences, but at least I'd have many more things done well, with finality, and been able to say this job was done by us, and not my intention here is abc... where the Lord wants us to bring things into alignment and completion.
I strongly feel this is a season of completion, this is a season where we're all coming to a place of seeing a season of hard work starting to bear fruit, pay off from the long haul. I pray, Lord, that You would bring a season of struggling, doubt and even drought (where it seemed like nothing would ever be enough) please God, bring it to an end and all we've been hard labouring over, please bring it to full, good, pleasing to You, final end.
Thank You Lord for Your faithfulness to carry us to the completion of Your plans, we love You so much!
