It is Finished

I was reading John 19 yesterday and was struck again by the miracle that is the gospel we believe!

      It is finished. My God the Creator and Holy One saw my sin, so disgusting to him, forever a wedge between me and a perfect relationship with himself. I rebel again and again against the One True King, but he has never ceased loving me. With perfect love, he sent from his own being the part of himself that is his Son to become fully man-with every human tendency, every trial, every pain. This God-Man Jesus lived on this earth, tempted and tried, but unlike us he never once gave in to sin. He understands fully our plight, but did not succumb to the same fate! Yet despite the good that he was and the good he did, we hated him and killed him, nailing him to a tree. As he died, the blood that was spilled, the life that he gave, became the blood price that we owed as payment for our rebellion against the Father! He was the perfect sacrifice, giving freely the perfection that was his life to pay our ransom. Now we stand free and clear if only we accept his gift and call him LORD. I am free indeed! Because here's the thing, death, that was to be the end of sinful man, could not hold the perfect Savior. On the third day he rose from the dead forever smashing death and living in utter victory. He is the coming King! But where is he now? He sits at the right hand of his Father interceding on our behalf as the only worthy one who actually understands what we are going through. What a wonderful Savior! What a beautiful Gospel!

This is just a reminder, just an encouragement. The task before us now is to seek to bring his Kingdom here to this earth and to bring the light that is this gospel to the dark places in this world that all men might see the Truth.

Life, Light, Living Water

"In him was life and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not overcome it."   John 1:4-5

"Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become a spring of living water welling up to eternal life.' "   John 4:13-14

    Jesus, Life abundant, Light victorious, Living water. He is everything I need. He deserves my everything. To make much of God is precisely what He deserves, but no matter how much I make of Him, there is always so much more to be made much of!
     Giver of life, Light to my path, Mighty God, Creator. Your creation calls for the praise you deserve! May the joy I find in the life you made, the meaning I find in the beauty of your creation and the life that you have given me be a victorious but warming, welcoming light in the darkness of this world. May those living in darkness draw near to the warmth of the light that is in me because of you. May I be generous with the life abundant that you have gifted me with.