Struggle with Finishing Projects Strong? Here's What the Bible Says.

I'm a visionary CEO. I'm great at setting the vision and getting it going. However, I struggle with finishing out projects and initiatives in my business.

For example, if there's a big product launch, I'll have tons of energy at the beginning, however, I won't do all the little tiny details at the end to finish strong.

And many times, it's because I lose faith somewhere along that initiative 😔

However, we Christian entrepreneurs are taught a different mindset that we need to constantly be working on along our spiritual journey, but we get to practice it along our business journey!

In the book of 2 Timothy, we find Paul writing a letter to Timothy, a fellow missionary. Many Bible scholars believe that this was the last letter Paul wrote before his death and that he wrote it from a Roman prison cell.

Reflecting on his own life and believing that his death was coming soon, Paul writes that powerful passage:

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7 NIV)

Faithful. 

Paul was faithful to God and, without end, God was faithful to Paul. Shipwrecked. Stoned. Abandoned by friends. Imprisoned. The list of what Paul ‌suffered goes on and on. But he ‌persevered. He ‌remained steadfast in his devotion to Christ. 

When you think about your overall business, what do you want to be able to say at the end when you sell it off or pass it along to your kids? What will you see when you look back?

When you launch that next product or press play on that new sales team you want to build, what do you want to be able to say when the results come in at the end of the quarter?

In Paul, we see an example of what it is to cling to faith in Christ. He knew what it was to be dependent on God for everything. He drew strength from God because Paul could not do it without Him. 

In our own day to day business dealings, we will face moments of doubt or discouragement. Let us use our entrepreneurial journey as a practice ground for holding fast to the truth of God's Word, knowing that He is faithful and will never leave us.

May it be said of us, at the end of our lives, that we, too, fought the good fight, finished the race, and kept the faith.