January 28,2013. 3:11PM
Have you experience doing something then at the middle of it you just realize you don't know how to finish it? Well, I experience it every time I start doing my Special Problem.
Special problem or SP is one of my major requirements to graduate. This could be and equivalent to thesis. I'm a computer science major and my SP is an information system android application. This project is from the company which I was an intern in last summer for my on-the-job training, another school requirement.
Every monday of the month, I would go to the company together with my classmates to do our SP there. February is approaching and I am barely starting my SP. I can say that it is really a complicated project and it needs time and dedication to finish. But the problem is I'm only excited when I'm about to start to do it. Somewhere in the middle when I encounter bugs (bugs are errors) I get easily discouraged. When I get discouraged, I will stop doing it and do something else, like for example writing this blog. When I'm faced with pressures, I go to the things that is comfortable. I start strong but when faced with problem, I just stop and not finish it.
It's the same with our faith. Do you remember the first day you met Jesus? The first time you gave your life to Him? You are just so excited to share it to your family, to your friends and to every stranger you meet. But as you become "older" in your faith, there's a tendency that the excitement will be gone. Problems come and you get discouraged. Pressures arise. Persecutions. Condemnations.
Or when God instructs you to do something that is outside of your comfort zone. You get so excited to do it but when you face hardships along the way, you step inside your comfort zone and stay there again.
We all fail at some point. But we don't have to stay like that. God wants us to finish the race; to fight the good fight of faith. But how?
You can finish the race the same way you were able to start it: Through the grace and love of God that was shown at the cross by Jesus Christ.
"Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus"
Philippians 1:6
Our faith started at the cross. It started when we accepted the fact that we cannot save ourselves and we need Jesus as our Savior. He has began this work in us. The problem is when we think that God's role is finish there. We think that starting from there, it will depend on us. God sent Jesus because of the fact that we can't save ourselves, what difference does it make now. We still can't save ourselves. We will still fail.
I like what Pastor Steve Furtick said, “It’s not about finishing what you started, it’s about continuing what He has already finished." We are not the ones who started our faith. It is still God. That's why Jesus said, "It is finished". It is an assurance for us that whatever trouble we may face, He has already overcome it and we already have the victory in Him.
Press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called you heavenward in Christ Jesus! (Philippians 3:14) Don't focus on the troubles but focus on God alone.
Press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called you heavenward in Christ Jesus! (Philippians 3:14) Don't focus on the troubles but focus on God alone.
