Peace is Found in the Completion

As one who speaks on a regular basis at my church, I was thinking today while preparing for what I was going to talk about tonight. I was thinking that there is only so much that I can do. There is only so much that any of us can do. As I write out my talk and condense it into a one-page outline, there is not enough room. Ever.

I have so much to say. God has so much to say. There is so much application that needs to be done in our lives and in the lives of our youth. I realize I can only do so much. The world is huge and the stats are alarming. And time is running out.

My pastor has visualized it to me by explaining it like a garage door closing slowly and we need to get them through. Time is running out and we need to get them all through. Time is running out every single day and many are missing their chance. Many are being left behind and I realize that I can only do so much.

But what I do is so much! What we all do here on Earth is so much.

What I do -- all that I can do -- is do what my God is pulling on my heart to do. I can only get his message out as much as my limited human life will allow and then at some point He comes in and completes it. He makes it worth it and redeems what wasn't enough. What was not portrayed correctly or what was not portrayed completely, we must trust Him that He will be faithful to complete it.

So all I'm going to do until I die is portray Him the best I know how, giving and screaming and showing and loving Him and His message. I may mess up on something somewhere, and I'm sure I have at some point. But that's how I am to do it. He is bigger and more in charge than I can ever be. He's in control and He'll make all things right.

These are the things that scare me. They disturb me at the core and I don't know that I will ever be at peace about these things:

91% of youths in Costa Rica say they do not believe they will go to heaven despite claiming to have accepted Jesus Christ. In Spain, 74% of the youth say they do not want to be a virgin when they marry. In Russia, 42% of the youth report having tried to commit suicide. In America there is a 720% increase in agnosticism and a 200% increase in atheism.

But what keeps me in it is knowing that all shall be made right when all is said and done. For He is the Alpha and the Omega. The beginning and the end. And He is right.

Philippians 1:6 - "He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it."

Amen.