March 17, 2022 - My mother always was one who enjoyed doing “crafty” things. When we were cleaning out her house, we found numerous half-finished projects. Things like purses being made from lunch boxes, wooden trays to be painted, pictures she was going to decoupage and, well, you get the idea. If we are honest, all of us have a number of “unfinished projects” of our own. It seems we “run out of time.”
Perhaps one of the saddest of our “unfinished projects” are the things we were going to do in the service of the Lord. Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount said, “Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify the Father which is in heaven”. (Matthew 5:16) Sadly, for most of us, the passage should read “our good intentions” rather than our good works. We tend to be more like what Paul wrote in Romans 7:19, “For I do not do the good I want” (ESV).
In all of our lives, there are good things and deeds of kindness we intended to do that we have failed to do. Let’s realize that we seldom accomplish all the good things we plan to do. It’s not that we are bad people, it’s not that we don’t care, it’s just that somehow we run out of time and we leave things unfinished. So, we need to resolve to do better tomorrow than we did today and we need to be loving and understanding toward others who have failed in the same way we have.
It’s something to think about... tbp
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