Life is tough enough as it is. It’s even tougher when we’re headed in the wrong direction.
One of the incredible abilities of Jesu was to stay on target. His life never got off track. Not once do we find him walking down the wrong side of the fairway. He had no money, no computers, no jets, no administrative assistants or staff; yet Jesus did what many of us fail to do. He kept his life on course.
As Jesus looked across the horizon of his future, he could see many targets. Many flags were flapping in the wind, each of which he could have pursued. He could have been a political revolutionary. He could have been a national leader. He could have been content to be a teacher and educate minds or to be a physician and heal bodies. But in the end he chose to be a Savior and save souls.
Anyone near Christ for any length of time heard it from Jesus Himself. “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19: 10 KJV.
“For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” Mark 10: 45, KJV.
The heart of Christ was relentlessly focused on one task. The day he left the carpentry shop of Nazareth he had one ultimate aim – the cross of Calvary. He was so focused that his final words were, “It is finished.”
How could Jesus say he was finished? There were still the hungry to feed, the sick to heal, the untaught to instruct, and the unloved to love. How could he say he was finished? Simple. He had completed his designated task. His commission was fulfilled. The painter could set aside his brush, the sculptor lay down his chisel, the writer put away his pen. The job was done.
Wouldn’t you love to be able to say the same? Wouldn’t you love to look back on your life and know you had done what you were called to do?