Pastor Catron has ministered on this topic in the past, however, the Lord has given a him a twist for what we are experiencing today.

Luke 14:16-24
Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it:I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them:I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

There are too many incompletes in our lives. We all use excuses a lot of the time. Humans are the most “excusing” people you want to see, especially those of us in the House of God. In the above parable, someone had gotten a new wife, they were bid to come to dinner because there was a celebration for those invited. These people couldn’t even come to their own celebration. “I can’t come because I have a new home…I can’t come because my mother is sick…I can’t come because i just got a new job…I can’t come because this or that person might be there…” Excuses.

There is one thing that everyone has, and what comes out of it is bad, and it is “buts.” We uses “buts” so much in our lives; but, everything that comes out of a butt is what? Foul, nasty, the residue of waste; your butt is where things come out that are of no use anymore in your life. So butts, and “buts” are almost the same. “Buts” are excuses for not wanting to do something. We stand and walk proudly with a but in our hands.

Paul said in Act. 20:23-24

Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

What is our purpose as Christians? To witness to other people. If we always have a “but” when it comes to doing the Lord’s work, do we really love Him? If God says He wants you to do something, should He see your “but?” Should He see your butt? Yes. Should He hear your “but?” No!

The Lord is saying you need to complete what you’ve started. If you are incomplete in the things that you do normally, then you won’t be complete in the things your are told to do naturally; spiritually. It is time for us to stop putting things aside, and complete that which we’ve already started to do, finishing it, no matter how long it takes.

It is easy to give up, is it not? You have to give up to do what? Give up! Just don’t do anything! Incompletes tend to follow you through your life. This is the way your life is; this is what your life has become. If you are incomplete in the world, guess what you’ll be when it comes to God? Why did God save you? So you can keep the joy of salvation to yourself? Or did He save you to spread the news of how you got in? Incomplete means you get your salvation and leave it right there. You have to close all open ends in your life.

James  1:22-23

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

Michael Jackson wrote a song entitled “Man in the Mirror.” Sometimes we don’t want to face who we really are. Have you looked at the real person in the mirror? God is asking you to change your ways. Don’t procrastinate, or delay; move on. The incompletes are keeping you from completing what God wants for you in your life. God can’t utilize you in His will, until we become free from who we are. Lay aside every weight that so easily besets you. If you know you are a no good son of a gun, face who you are. He saved you so you can recognize who you are so you can get you straight. “Lord, I’m a Child of God, and a lier. Can they both exist together? Lord I’m a Child of God and a no good son of a gun, do they both go together?” Paul said, “Oh wretched man that I am.” You have got to look in the mirror and say “God I don’t won’t to be this anymore. Its a weight in my life.” But we have to say “God whatever it takes, make me who you want me to be.” When you look in the mirror, can you be proud of what you’ve accomplished for Him? God is telling us to clean up and get the incompletes our of our lives. When we look in the mirror of the reflections of what God says about us, that is the scary part. Is the image something that stinks in His nostrils? Be ye holy as He is holy.

In 2 Corinthians 3:17-18, the Word says:

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Complete the incompletes, allow Him to let you see yourself in the mirror and get things correct.