Trying to stay "on task"

Tell me has this happened to you?

You have a deadline, a project or paper is due.  Your diligently working on it and the next thing you know your desk surfing and imagining your in Hawaii battling the waves in the Hawaiian Surfing Classic, with a shark approaching and time running out.

OK maybe that's a little bit of an exaggeration.

However, we have all taken a phone call, started another project, got sucked into social media, or started playing a game when we really needed to stay on task and finish what we started.

Nehemiah was a cup holder for the king, exiled from his home of Jerusalem.  Word had gotten back to him that his homeland was in ruins.  Nehemiah had a burden for his homeland and gained permission from the king to return to Jerusalem and begin the great task of rebuilding the walls around Jerusalem.  As Nehemiah began the task it was overwhelming how great a project it was going to be, and he was constantly having to deal with opposing countries trying to stop the work.  He had to deal with immediate danger, naysayers who said it couldn't be done, and a huge financial burden of the project.  God saw it through with him, all the way to the end.

^15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days. ^16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. (Neh 6:15-16, NIV)

Unbelievable, think about it, a fortified stronghold of a wall was built all the way around the great city of Jerusalem in 52 days.  God is the only explanation.

Here is my point.  God has a task for you, YES YOU!!  You will have a lot of people telling you that you can't, you will have people telling you that you are crazy, you will have people telling you that it is simply not possible, you will have people telling you to give up you are wasting your time, you will have people that may even physically or financially stop you, or your greatest enemy may even be not believing in yourself.

Listen to me, better yet listen to scripture:

^6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (Php 1:6., NIV)

Be confident, be assured that God has called you for a specific purpose and HE will carry it on to completion.  You and I just have to stick with it.  You and I have to stay on task.

There are so many things out there to distract us, squirrel, so focus and stay with it.

I believe in you, God believes in you, now will you believe in you?

Chris