Daily Devotional with Dr. Duane Brooks
April 2, 2018
Deuteronomy 34:5-7
And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in Moab, as the Lord had said.  He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.  Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.
New International Version (NIV)
               “Finish strong!”  A fellow seminarian challenged us as he walked past a group of us playing football.  Easier said than done.  We start all sorts of things. How do we finish well?  Someone surveyed the heroes in the scriptures and said almost all of them failed in the second half of their lives.  Our testimony is never safe until we get home!

                Moses, on the other hand, ran all the way through the finish line.  He didn’t lose the race at the tape.  God’s servant never “lost a step.”  Though he was not perfect, Moses saw clearly and walked uprightly for his whole lifetime.  Billy Graham also comes to mind.  Almost 100 years he lived on this earth.  As far as I can tell, he didn’t waste a minute of it.

                At a breakfast a CEO was overheard lamenting about a brash young employee, “He is not a finisher.   He can’t move up in the company if he won’t finish what he starts.”  “Guilty as charged,” we might confess for ourselves.  All of us except God.  “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion . . .”  God finishes everything he starts, including us!
Pray with me:
Father, thank you for your faithful servants who have finished well.  We confess that we start many things with great intentions.  Put courage in those who are discouraged today.  Help us to cheer somebody on their way today.  Let us not grow weary in doing good.  Let none of us be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.  Help us to make progress in our sanctification every day, until the day you finish what you started in us.  In Jesus’ name.,  Amen.  
This year we focus our Every Day with Jesus readings on Jesus’ story.  With references to Tallowood's Read Through the Bible in 2018 daily reading plan, let's focus our undivided attention on Jesus and follow where he lead. He will not fail. Neither will we!
  Joyfully, 
  Duane 
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