This morning, there's nothing more to do - I can't add anything to it - I can't take anything away from it - it's over, it's done, it's paid for, it's completed!
My sin debt has been paid by the Son of God - it is a new dawn each day - a slate wiped clean by Jesus' blood - forever gone.
Jesus' last words from the cross: "It is finished" "נשלם" "tetelestai" ......
John 19:2830
After this, Jesus knew that everything had at last been completed.
‘I’m thirsty,’ he said (fulfilling what the Bible had said).
There was a jar there full of sour wine. So they put a sponge filled with the sour wine on a hyssop rod and lifted it to his mouth. Jesus drank it.
‘It’s all done!’ he said.
Then he let his head drop, and gave up his spirit.
The more I think of it, the more deeply grateful I become.
In the Psalms David wrote: "As far as the east is from the west, so far He has removed our sins from us" [Psalm 103:12] - He was looking forward to the cross, we look backward to it.
What Jesus did is hallmarked in eternity, outside of time and space.
He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, slain before the foundation of the world.
Yet in my heart sometimes I reminded of a wrong I've done to someone and it seems like I have to pay for it all over again - it's something I can never overcome or get over!
This is the voice of the accuser and it is a lie.
Just as I wouldn't try to pay for a meal when someone else had already paid for it, the same goes for my sins. Jesus paid the bill IN FULL. It's completed.
Time to live like someone forgiven right NOW!
Don't waste time in false guilt, Jesus died and paid in His blood so we could be free.
John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will indeed be free—
I Get So Excited, Lord,
Every Time I Realise
I’m Forgiven, I’m Forgiven.
Jesus, Lord, You’ve Done It All,
You’ve Paid The Price:
I’m Forgiven, I’m Forgiven.
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