“What do you want to be when you grow up?” No one really asked me that question as a child. At one time as I was in a theatre seeing a movie I got the answer – an engineer. Then, I did not ask the same question of my children. Since my wife is a piano teacher and my daughter plays piano very well (she got many awards in piano). We automatically expect her to be a piano teacher or a musician. As for my son, he draws really well, so we expect him to be an artist. After so many years of schooling, my daughter today is a chemical scientist and my son a chef.
No one really sees what the future holds. This resonates with what Paul saw in the Philippian believers—those he loved and prayed for God could see the end; he knew what they’d be when all was said and done.
As Paul wrote from prison, reminded the Philippian church that “he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6) “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.” The word completion is particularly important—the story doesn’t just end, for God leaves nothing unfinished.