Incomplete

It totally feels like a Monday today.  I’m sure you have days like that, you know, days where just getting your mind to have a productive thought is like hiking through a mile of mud.  Everything is slower, and the distractions are so much more…distracting.

As I look at my “To Do” list for today, there aren’t all that many items.  And I’ve been working on them for hours.  In fact I should be working on them now, but I’m doing this instead.  My point is, very few of those things are done.  Some of them are part of the way done, but most everything seems incomplete.  I’m still waiting for the perfect idea for one item.  I left something I need for another at home.  I still haven’t gotten around to finishing the thing I didn’t finish last week.  It’s very frustrating.

As human beings we get very focused on end results.  We want everything to tie up neatly into complete packages so that we can be done and move on.  God seems to be much more interested in the process.  There is a big churchy word that describes this, “sanctification.”  This is the way that over time believers become more and more like Jesus.  This doesn’t happen instantly, and we never quite make it.  We just learn to live and love the way He did.  Llittle by little we grow, taking steps backwards and then again forward.  We want results, instant life change, but the truth is we are all incomplete and in the middle of a life long process.  So embrace your incompleteness.  Don’t be so hard on yourself when you fail, use it as motivation to suceed the next time.  Don’t be so focused on your past or your future, just do what God is calling you to do today.  This is the only day quite like today that you will ever get.  Use it well.  You are incomplete and in the middle of a process, so every day matters.