Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of you share in God’s grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer, that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight to help you to determine what is best, so that on the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless, having produced the harvest of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God. (Philippians 1:1-11, NRSV)
God who started a good work in you will bring it to completion! God will not leave you unfinished!
When I was on internship we went to confirmation camp, as most congregations do, however my supervisor wrote the curriculum they had been using for many years. The first day all of us got name tags that said:
PBPWMGINFWMY
Now I knew what it stood for since I was helping teach the lessons, but the youth had no idea…
We went through the day talking about how God had created us to be workers in the mission field and that we are each our own creation of God with gifts to help the world see who He is.
It was a lesson much like Paul is telling the Philippians in verse 6 above. It is a lesson all of us can learn and live into and through…
You see the one who has begun a good work in you will see it through to completion and we keep working in you until that day you are fully in the kingdom of God.
You see God is not yet done with any of us and is at work right now in us, so all of us can live out and into the name:
Please Be Patient With Me God Is Not Finished With Me Yet!
So lets be patient with each other, because God is not finished working on us just yet…
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