COMPLETE OR FINISH (Part 1)

COMPLETE OR FINISH

(PART 1)

Adesina Abegunde

Wow! Here is the end of another great week, all thanks to God who alone has preserved us.

Today, I will be sharing with you a very wonderful idea of what God intend marriage to do to every one of us.

A week to my wedding in 2012, I was privileged to be under the ministration of one of my referred preachers and Old Testament scholars, Rev’d Dr Sayo Oladejo now the Rector of the Baptist College of Theology, Oyo. In his sermon that day he used an illustration to depict what a good marriage or a bad marriage do to people involved. His illustration goes thus (please note that this my own version of the story, as I may not be able to say it exactly as he did);

A primary school pupil was given a homework to do over the weekend and it was quite simple as the help of the parent was involved. Sets of two words each were given, and the task is to determine whether they are synonyms or not.

One pair of the words was COMPLETE and FINISH. The father of the boy told him that the two words are not the same, i.e. not synonymous. So the obedient boy wrote that they are not synonymous.

Getting to school, the boy’s paper was marked, he got all except that question. The teacher, an Uncle in trying to be nice, explained each of the questions that the pupils missed. When you end a task you can say, “I have completed it or I have finished it”, “I have finished my rounds or completed my rounds”, “My part of the work is done, completed or finished.” The two words can be used synonymously. The teacher emphasized.

The boy, having determined to score 100% was disappointed and went home unhappy. He got home and told his father that the Uncle said he missed it. The father asked his son a question IS YOUR UNCLE MARRIED? The boy answered, no. So the father giggled, sat down and said “No wonder your Uncle said complete and finish are the same. He is not married, when he marry he will know the difference. Because in marriage complete and finish are not the same, when your marriage is good and godly, then you are complete. But when your marriage is bad and horrible, then you are finished.”

Good marriage complete you, bad marriage finish you.

Wow! What a great marriage illustration, the design of marriage by God is to complete us and not to finish us, it is to make people realize and live their potential fully.

In the next two Fridays’ posts, I will be sharing on the meaning of complete and finish as regards marriage and how couples can finish or complete themselves. 

Watch out for it, think and pray about this post and share the link and lesson with your friends, either married of single. Your marriage will complete you in Jesus name.

This weekend will be great for you, help will locate you in Jesus name.

Joy and peace will not cease in your home in Jesus name.

There will be revival of love in your family in Jesus name.

Every satanic agenda for your family will be destroyed in Jesus name.

Enjoy your weekend. God bless you.