Finishing Well

Paul wrote these words near the end of his life. They weren't the words of a man who never made mistakes — they came from someone who had persecuted Christians, argued with friends, survived shipwrecks and prisons. And still, at the end, he could say: I finished well.

Finishing well doesn't mean finishing without failures. It means finishing with your faith kept intact. It means looking back and seeing that, in spite of everything, you didn't abandon God — and He didn't abandon you.

Only a few days remain before the year turns. What kind of "ending" do you want to have? Not the flawless ending of someone who never stumbled, but the honest ending of someone who fought, who cried, who fell and got back up, and who now arrives at December still on her knees before Him.

That's the ending that matters. That's the ending that honors the race.