Finished! He Has Done it!
A while ago, The LORD showed me something profound.
He has asked me to share it as you may want to meditate on it, in these days leading up to Easter.
Have you ever noticed something that Jesus says on the Cross?
He says aloud, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46)
Most of you know that Jesus didn’t originate this himself while on the Cross, for He was quoting Psalm 22, which was composed by King David.
I have always loved how the written word of God was so deeply ingrained in the incarnate Word of God that even as He is enduring the agony of the Cross, He is still meditating on Scripture.
It is so moving.
But have you ever thought to re-read the account of Jesus’s suffering and death on the Cross — and then read Psalm 22.
These are just some of the sentences that follow the opening lines:
“Yet you are holy,
dwelling in the praises of Israel.
All who see me mock me;
they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;
“He trusts in The LORD; let him deliver him;
let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”
On you was I cast from my birth,
and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.
you lay me in the dust of death.
they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.
I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you
For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of the afflicted,
and he has not hidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he cried to him.
my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
All the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to The LORD,
and all the families of the nations
shall worship before you.”
In John 19, Jesus’s last word on the cross in Greek is τετέλεσται (tetelestai). It means “Finished!”
And the last lines of Psalm 22 are:
“Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of The LORD to the coming generation;
they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
that he has done it.”
“Finished!” is equivalent to “He has done it!”
That is exactly what our LORD does for us.
Jesus is not only quoting Psalm 22, He is living it, right there on the Cross.
He is bringing David’s prophecy, made centuries earlier, to fulfillment.
This never fails to amaze me.
There is not, nor ever will be, any human quite like Jesus.
But He did all this for us, so we can become more like Him.
Our God is extraordinary. He is worthy of all our worship.
~ Iris Maud, UK.
Iris Maud, UK.
I decree ” Jesus has done it for me “