Scripture Devotion
A work you began, you might abandon. A work he began, he completes.
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”
Reflection
The confidence in this verse rests on a particular fact: the work was begun by someone other than you. He which hath begun a good work in you — it started as his initiative, not your resolution, which changes who's responsible for finishing it. A project you started, you might abandon; a work he began, he completes. And the promise is that he will perform it — carry it through, bring it to completion — all the way until the day of Jesus Christ. Not until you lose momentum, not until it gets hard, but to the end. There's rest in that for a Friday, especially one where your own progress feels stalled: the good work in you isn't yours to finish by willpower. It's his to complete by faithfulness, and he does not leave his work undone.