It Is Finished (Daily Devotional)

Hello and welcome to Living Supernaturally. We are taking this time to meditate on some of the words that was spoken by the Lord Jesus while He was on the cross and as we look at these scripture portions, we see the extent of His suffering but we also see the extent of His love. We also learn some of these truths that we need to really embrace and apply in our lives. Today, we are going to look at John chapter 19, verses 28 to 30, this is what we read, ‘After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!” Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth. So, when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.’ This scripture talks about something that was accomplished on the cross. It starts by saying that Jesus knowing that all things were accomplished, He knew that He had come to the end of His earthly ministry and all things that needed to be done was accomplished, all things that were required for humanity that was separated from God, all things that were required for humanity to be redeemed, all things that were required for sin to be forgiven, all things were done. We see that He exclaimed, ‘it is finished!’ and bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. Talking about this death that He died on the cross, we read in Philippians chapter 2, verses 5 to 8, Paul writes and he says, ‘Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.’ Nothing was left undone when Christ died this kind of death on the cross. He took upon Himself our sin, He took upon Himself our sickness, He took upon Himself everything that He needed to remove out of the way so that we could have access to this amazing and awesome God, so that we could be saved from eternal damnation. This is what we read in Isaiah chapter 53, verses 4 and 5, talking about what He carried upon Himself, ‘Surely, He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.’ Today, the finished work of the cross, the finished work of healing, the finished work of forgiveness, the finished work of redemption, the finished work is available for each and every one of us. There is nothing that is left undone, there is nothing that you and I can do or add on to the finished work of the cross. All that we can do is to receive it gratefully, thankfully and receive it by faith, putting our trust and faith completely in what He has done for us on the cross. Shall we do that right now? Father, we thank you for the finished work of the cross. When you declared, ‘it is finished!’ there was nothing else to be added, nothing else to be done, no more price to be paid, for the greatest price was paid, greatest sacrifice was made and we thank you today, we acknowledge that and we thank you that today we can receive this gratefully, we can receive by faith what you are extending to us out of grace and mercy. We choose to receive that into our own lives, forgiveness, healing, restoration, blessing, redemption, we receive it into our own lives by faith, in Jesus’ matchless name, Amen.

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