Our Objective-To Finish The Work
September 19, 2013 Leave a comment
“I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I finish my work. I want to finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.” Acts 20:24 ERV
“Finish-come or bring to an end; finally be; do something; have an end in quantitative state”
“Work-an activity directed toward making or doing something”
Our objective as a Christian: To tell people the Good News about God’s grace.”
There are many ways we can look at our objective in life. Many of us will say that the reason we are here on earth is to live a good life and enjoy it like a precious gift. Some will say that we are here to help others. Others will say that they are here to raise a generation and mentor anyone that comes in contact. Some will say, to fulfill my callings. Some will say, to work and save money for retirement so that when I’m in my 60’s, I can enjoy the fruits of my labor and not worry about supporting/sustaining myself for the rest of my life. Or others will say, I am here to change the world and create something extraordinary. Some will say, I’m just here to live a life and not analyze it or create it – I just want to live a life – a simple life.
We all know that living a life with no objective is pointless. Everyone should have an objective in life because without an objective, we always end up in a place of confusion and dissatisfaction at the end of our day. Take for instance today, what is your objective? What do you want to accomplish? It’s been a habit of mine to grab 1 or 2 objectives per day and accomplish it and so far this strategy is working for me. Today, I’m going to run 2 miles and visit my financial adviser to help me sort out my retirement plans. Aside from that, my other objectives are to write an entry to my journal (this one) and read a chapter of the Hyper-V book. By the end of the day, I am expecting that these objectives are completed. I always do this everyday and so far it’s been positive.
Life in general needs to have an objective. As a Christian believer, we need to know what our real objective is. Yes, we can say – to be faithful and trustworthy to God and avoid a sinful life but that is not why we are here on earth. Apostle Paul clearly stated his objective-to tell the people the Good News.
The church has to evolve. Sometimes you hear people say that I’m tired of church and I don’t want to be a part of it anymore because all I hear are condemnation, judgement, do this, do that, missions, be holy, be sinless, pray at all times, read your Bible daily but at the end of the day, one can’t even summarize that there was even a Good News being given to them.
We veered off a bit in our objectives as a Christian. Visit a modern church and you can visibly see the lack of Good News. It breaks my heart to listen to a pastor or a leader that confesses Christianity but not even fulfilling the simplest obligation at all – to reach the unchurched, instead we drive them away by the way we present ourselves in our speech, actions and sensitivity to their needs.
Our objective is very simple – to tell the Good News about God’s grace. That’s it and not anything else. If every Christian does that, there is no reason for us not to reach anyone that is open to hear about God.
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