The Doing is Done
John 19:28-30 Later, Jesus knew that everything had been done. To make the Scriptures come true he said, “I am thirsty.” There was a jar full of sour wine there, so the soldiers soaked a sponge in it. They put the sponge on a branch of a hyssop plant and lifted it to Jesus’ mouth. When he tasted the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and died.
Unforgiveness isn’t just something that you and I experience in our day-to-day lives here in the 21st century. Oh no! Unforgiveness is as old as time.
Archaeologists excavating the Roman baths in the UK city of Bath uncovered a bunch of artifacts known as the “curse tablets.” As psychologytoday.com reports … “the sole legacy of these people who lived 1,600 years ago is their rage at others, memorialised in curses inscribed on copper or lead.”
Tragic, but – come on, look around – hardly surprising. Unforgiveness is thriving, which is why so many find it impossible to conceive that God could simply forgive them. Surely we’d have to work our way back into His favour somehow.
Yet there’s nothing simple about it. It cost Him everything to forgive the likes of thee and me upon that Cross!
John 19:28-30 Later, Jesus knew that everything had been done. To make the Scriptures come true he said, “I am thirsty.” There was a jar full of sour wine there, so the soldiers soaked a sponge in it. They put the sponge on a branch of a hyssop plant and lifted it to Jesus’ mouth. When he tasted the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and died.
You and I can be forgiven, completely and utterly, because Jesus paid the price that we couldn’t pay … with His life. And when we believe in Him – let this sink in – there’s no more doing to be done.
As Charles Spurgeon put it, “The general religion of mankind is ‘Do’ but the religion of a true Christian is ‘Done.’”
It is finished.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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