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Desiring to complete … what?

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 In my daily Bible reading this week, a passage kind of stuck with me. It’s 2 Corinthians 8:10,11:

10 And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; 11 but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have.

Call me crazy, but I believe that God talks to us through His word and through circumstance, so when I’m reading the Bible and something really jumps out at me, or sticks in my mind, or gets under my skin, I take it seriously.

And God knows completing things is not my strong suit. I can use all of the reminders I can get.

The big question is … what was I desiring to complete a year ago?  Continue reading