I have finished the work ...

I have finished the work ... 
John 17:4 

‘I have finished the work.’ Not, ‘I started it’; not, ‘I thought about it’; not ‘I was going to get to it.’ The roads from Bible studies and Bible conferences are strewn with the broken commitments of men and women who began but never finished what God told them to do. I’m sure glad that after Noah finished the frame on the ark, he didn’t say, ‘Close enough. We don’t need a roof.’ No, he finished the work. He completed the task. If he hadn’t, we would all be sunk. 

What about you? If you knew you only had a few hours to live, could you say, ‘Father, I finished the work You gave me to do'? Or would you say, ‘I know you put this on my heart last year and I meant to get to it, but ...’? 

Have you finished the work? Saul didn’t ...

Let not one Amalekite remain,’ Samuel told Saul (I Samuel 15:3). And Saul killed almost every one — but he decided to keep Agag, king of the Amalekites as a trophy. Twenty five years later, wounded in battle, rather than being captured by the enemy, Saul turns to a young man on the field and says, ‘Kill me.’ And the young man — an Amalekite — did just that. Where did he come from? Somewhere along the way, Agag fathered a son. 

What has God called you to do? What has He spoken to your heart about? Maybe it’s some sin, or something that’s got to go, and you think, ‘Well, I’ve got it pretty much taken care of. I know the Lord’s told me not to do this, but I’ve cut way back.’
‘Have you finished it?’
‘No, but I’ve got it under control.’

Watch out. Agag is out to get you.

‘It Is Finished,’ cried Jesus from the Cross. I’m so glad He didn’t say, ‘I almost did it, but ’m going to come down now’ — because if He had come down from the Cross, we would go down to hell. He paid the price. He finished the Work.



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Note : This devotion is penned by Pastor Jon Courson.