A work in progress

This morning at the Gathering a guy spoke about how he was a work in progress. That he realized that he was something that is not finished and that he was still being built.

I can not agree more. I think that so often we approach life as something in the future, a destination that we are suppose to one day arrive at and enjoy. So we are always thinking that real living is a future event. That is so wrong, life is a journey (or as one of my favorite songs go, "life is a highway") and the destination is death then judgment.

Listen to what it says in Acts 13:36, "36 For when David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep." What this means is that David sought to live the purpose of God for him in whatever generation he was in at the time, and after that he died. In other words, life is about seeking to live the purpose of God in the teenage years as a teenager, then seek to live God's purpose as a 20 something when you are 20 something, and on and on. To often we live thinking that God's purpose is always something in the future, or we think that when we get to some stage or age in the future that then we will live God's purpose. No, God's purpose is always in the now.

I am convinced that we miss so much of what God has for us today because we are so consumed with trying to arrive to the future. Today you are not too young or too old for God to work in you and through you. Today could be the first day to living God's purpose that he has for you to live today, at this stage, in the generation that you are currently in...after that the only thing left to do is die.