At the Troy University football game, when the opposing team throws a pass but it is not competed the public address announcer will say that the pass fell in-comp-lete. This is also place upon the screen at one end of the end zone. It is very impressive for a first time visitor of the stadium and a Troy University football game.
Paul said, “For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing” (2 Timothy 4:6-8). Paul said that in his life there was nothing that was left IN-COMP-ETE. We ought to be the same.
Jesus talked about some who left some things IN-COMP-ETE and some who had competed their work: “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. The shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and he took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye cam unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, When saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? Or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have one it unto me. Then all he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye have me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: named, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then all he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal” (Matthew 25:31-46). Some of these individuals did some of these things but they were interested in when they did them to the Lord. Their works were IN-COMP-ETE!
There are other religious people and even some of the Lord’s followers who were doing some of what the Lord wanted done. Listen to what He said, “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone” (Matthew 23:23). See again their work was IN-COMP-ETE!
May we be as Paul who finished his course. He completed the work that was set before him. May we do the same and may in never be said of us that our work is IN-COMP-ETE!
Love, Keith
