A Heart for the Ending

Daily Scripture Threshing for Sunday, December 31, 2023

Today’s Text: Ecclesiastes 7:4-9

Key Verse: Ecclesiastes 7:8 (ESV): “Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.”

As Pastor Doris and I congratulate you for the opportunity to see the end of another year, we continue in prayers that you shall witness the end of the coming year also, in Jesus name. We have come to the end of 2023, and it is a happy ending to the glory of God. Hallelujah! And, nothing shall thwart your joy in the name of Jesus. Amen.

As usual, today’s devotion has been sent out to speak to the spirit of the season. As we all may have seen: ours is such a generation with a difference! Things are getting out of hands and people are evolving ideologies that are increasingly detrimental and negative. Many young and ardent persons unfortunately have adopted principles diametrically opposed to the spirit of patience for the end. All people care about today is having it all good from the beginning regardless of what it takes. The charm of novelty, dignity of enterprise, and the inspiration of relationship that lead to enduring end no longer interest most people.

We have seen the end of the year 2023 and we can all testify to the fact that ending is always sweet. We must never turn away with disgust from the realities and blessings of an end. Processes are always something wearying, but the message of the text before us today embodies the conviction of the wise. If you observe and reflect on the entire course of nature, you will find out that human affairs is curated to start small, rough and crawling; but we grow into desired delightful ending.

Therefore, it is only wise and necessary that we all always undertake our beginning with a view to the end, or the end may be happy if at all it ever be. The end in mind gives us patience. It inspires the heart of a finisher and endurance. The end is the justification of the beginning. The consciousness of the end provokes conscience in pursuance of order and just means. God wants us to know that our ending is naturally and spiritually superior to the means. Therefore, we are never permitted to pursue an end by wrongful means.

Quote for the Day: “We all have little beginnings so that we are all brought to perfection by the discipline of the process of time.” — Simon Olatunji

Prayer: Dear Lord and Father, thank you for the wonderful future you have for me. I know  that You have revealed the thoughts the You have for me: to give me a future and a hope. Please give me the strength to trust and wait on you till You take me through the joyous finish line of my life — in Jesus Christ’s name. Amen.

With all my love and prayers,

Rev Simon Wale Olatunji, Ph.D.

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