It is Finished?

"It is finished." The implication of the Greek word is "This is complete." It is accomplished, fulfilled, completed. Then you can put an exclamation point after the phrase. There is no question mark. Redemption is complete. You can't add to it. You can't subtract from it. It doesn't need something added to it. Jesus accomplished perfect redemption for men. He completed what we could not even begin. His blood was shed. It's more than all the blood of all the sacrifices ever offered.

Hebrews 10:8-14: "First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made). Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy."

Christ finished the task God purposed him to do. God finished his work on the Cross so that his redemption might be complete in our lives.

Have you completed the task God has for you? Can you say “It is Finished. I have completed what God has given me to do? God’s plan and purpose for my life have been accomplished. God has used the minutes, hours, days, months and years that have been entrusted to me and God’s will and purpose have been done in my life.”

John, standing at the foot of the cross, relays to us Christ's final words. They are words, not of despair, but of triumph - "It is finished." His redemption for you and me is complete. There is nothing we can do to add to it. There is nothing we can do to earn it. Nothing can take it away.

All that is left for us to do, is in gratitude and love to let him to continue to reach out to a lost and dying world through us. To proclaim God's offer of redemption triumphantly to anyone who will place themselves at the foot of the cross. Our prayer is that God might finish His purpose through us as well!

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