A"To Do" List that's Done!

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like my "To Do" list is endless! As soon as I cross something off, there's two or three more tasks to add. There's never time to bask in the satisfaction of knowing I'm done as there's constantly more and more "To Do".

Heaven, however, is a place with no "To Do" list. No homework. No "I really should...". Nothing hanging over your head that's not finished. In Heaven, the task is complete, the race is run.

In this life, it feels like the mad dash is never over. Oh sure, there are moments of rest. Glimpses of glory. Small stirrings of satisfaction as another item is checked off. But it's never complete--the road still beckons, we have not yet arrived, our travels are far from over.

But in Heaven, they will be. The rest--and the satisfaction--will be complete. And when we finally hear our Daddy utter those words, "Well done my good and faithful servant" we'll know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the journey, and the race has all been worth it.

Do you see what this means--all those pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running--and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed--that exhilarating finish in and with God--he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!

Hebrews 12:1-3
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