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.