Daily Discipleship - Day 235: To Finish the Course

May 3, 2026

Daily Discipleship • Day 235 • Monday, December 21, 2026

To Finish the Course

Acts 20:24

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Scripture

Acts 20:24 (Greek NT) ἀλλ’ οὐδενὸς λόγου ποιοῦμαι τὴν ψυχὴν τιμίαν ἐμαυτῷ, ὡς τελειῶσαι τὸν δρόμον μου καὶ τὴν διακονίαν ἣν ἔλαβον παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

Author & Audience

Mother Teresa on surrendering personal comfort to complete the calling God assigns — a call relevant to every believer, not only missionaries.

Word Study

δρόμον

dromon · Greek NT

“course, race”

From dramein, to run. Paul pictures his apostolic life as a defined race with a fixed finish line. The image echoes athletic contests familiar to his audience — the course is not chosen by the runner but laid out by the one who sends.

Reflection

From the writers we read together

Mother Teresa

Missionary and Mystic, Calcutta

“I am a little pencil in God's hand. He does the thinking; He does the writing.” — Mother Teresa, A Simple Path (1995)

Paul does not cling to his own safety or comfort. His single ambition is to finish the course assigned by Jesus — to testify to the grace of God until the end. This is not grim resignation but radical freedom: when our life belongs to God's purpose, we are released from the exhausting work of protecting ourselves.

Mother Teresa understood this surrender as availability. She did not calculate the cost; she simply remained open to whatever God wrote through her. Ask yourself today: Am I running the course God has laid out, or have I been designing my own track? Finishing well begins with yielding the pen.

Continue your study: Discipleship School — Explore what faithful discipleship looks like across every stage of the Christian life.

Prayer

Heavenly Father, King of the Universe, Lord Jesus, You set a course before me and ask only that I run it faithfully. Release me from self-preservation. Let my one ambition be to finish what You have given me to do and to testify to Your grace along the way. Amen.

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