John 19:23-30
What is finished?
The lust for material objects is finished. Let the soldiers throw losers’ dice for cloth! Something greater than clothing and small profit is right above them. Jesus’ glory and love prove a far better outfit than fabric. If we would wear them.
Human relationships as they were are finished. Jesus gives his mother a new person in her life, and a dear friend a woman in grief to tend to. Truly, when Paul writes, “… in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for all are one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28) he found this power of the cross to be true in believers.
The promises of the Old Testament are finished/fulfilled. The wages of sin indeed were death. A Lamb was slain for the sin of the people. God, and God alone, must be the Redeemer for His chosen ones. The signs that pointed to Jesus in the Scriptures all led to Him, indeed.
The days of struggling with belief is finished. Jesus, in giving up His spirit, opened the way for the Holy Spirit to live within those who trust in Christ. This life is not ours to control, but to yield to. We know against Whom we struggle; we understand how radically new we are, yet return again to what we were. And the Spirit moves us, kicking and screaming, to that person we are in the Lord.
What is finished…? All that God needed to satisfy His demands of Creation. All that God needed to fill His jewel of Creation with life that makes all things new!
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