Finishing well in life

If you can only pen one summary statement of your life – what would it be?

It is not how you start that matters. It is how you finish that counts.

Many start swell but few finish well. In the Christian marathon, many start in a dash but few really make it to the end.

Life is full of attractions which is really a distraction.

There are people to know and places to go. There are bills to pay and career paths to be laid. There are spouses to keep and mouths to feed.

So we miss a service and we skip a prayer. Like—is that is a big deal?

But our once becomes twice, and habits become life. Before we know it, we have been seduced, fooled and stuck into living the big lie; the lie of gathering things and prizes that are mere illusory toys.

What do I want to say of my life, of me, when I see Him face-to-face?

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” (II Timothy 4:7)

If I can only pen one summary statement for my life, “Lord, I pray, please let Paul’s words be mine.”