In Acts 20:24 the apostle Paul wrote, “…I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.”
Notice how well the Apostle Paul had defined for himself his life goal.
If we fail to cross the finish line of fulfilling God’s purpose for our lives, the reason may be quite simple: we had no clearly defined goal to begin with. And since being the person God created each of us to be is like running a course that’s tailor made for each of us, the chance that we will, at random, end up stumbling across our finish line is zero.
So where do we start? We have to want to finish the race well — be all that God intends us to be. In fact, we have to want it so bad that we are willing to constantly look up to God for wisdom as to what will help us advance toward our finish line.
But just how do we grow our “want to”?
That too is quite simple: we start with even the smallest desire we already have and strength it. How? By just thinking about it. The principal is this: every desire we think about gets stronger. So once we define for ourselves, as prayerfully as we can, what we’d like our finish line to be, it’s a matter of continually bringing our thoughts back to it. The more we do that the stronger it will grow until leaning on God’s wisdom for our daily decisions is as natural to us as breathing and, in the end, we will indeed finish our race well.
