Fulfil your work

But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry. – 2 Timothy 4.5

Finish the job. Finish the job. Get it done. If you have a job to do stay it with it until it’s through.

That’s some good advice from a children’s Christian song. It’s a great reminder for all of us. We have a work to do and we need to stay with the task and fulfil the ministry.

Quitting, or losing heart, is not an option. We stick with it until we do what God called us to do.

In another letter Paul wrote to a fella named Archippus, ‘take heed to the ministry that you received from the Lord that you fulfil it.’

Starting is good. Continuing is great. Finishing is the real test though. Anyone can lose heart, even the best of us.

The great truth is that as we try to fulfil our work, we have a God who will stick with us to the very end. He is the completer of the work He started. He will never leave us or forsake us.

So we plod away. We rely on His presence and we just keep on keep on till our work on earth is done.