It Is Finished
On a night when my mind has been consumed with Christ’s death on the cross, the 3 words that move me most: IT IS FINISHED.
Tears fall.
Tears of what that eternally means. Before that night, animals were the only way to be forgiven and cleansed from sin. Over and over again, an animal was sacrificed. But Jesus PAID IN FULL the insurmountable debt of our sin. No longer did His people have to follow the rituals of sacrifices. It was done. It was paid for. Through the death of ONE.
Oh the Wonderful Cross!
Oh the Wonderful Cross!
We can now truly live.
I think of the sins I commit over and OVER again. That is was THOSE that He came to this earth to die for. The sins I commit by omission. The sins I commit in thought. The sins I commit in action. He hung on a cross for THOSE. Every single one of them.
That is why Easter morning is overwhelming. On a night that we ponder Christ’s sacrifice, we know there is joy in the morning (well 3 days later).
Sidenote: Today at the bookstore there were a lot of people coming in and buying Easter gifts. I’m not gonna lie – I struggled with that today. For some, I feel like Easter is a way to celebrate the materialistic side of Christmas again. I see how much people are buying – and how they have to go here and there to finish the baskets and I wonder have we gotten away from the true meaning of why we celebrate Easter? I vented this all out to Dan because I want to make sure that no matter WHAT celebration it is, I want our kids to know WHY we are celebrating. I don’t want them to just be eager to open an Easter basket. I want them to know the whys. I am NOT saying that we should do away with all Easter baskets and gifts – I just think that with any “holiday” us being the consumerism culture we are, we tend to go overboard and get carried away with the tangible (gifts) and not focus on the spiritual. I can see some people truly thinking about every book they buy and whether their child or the person they are buying for would get the message of Easter through it. So cool. But then I see others where it’s just a burden – a have to do it because it’s Easter mentality. That’s just something I have been thinking about all day…do you ever feel the same?
As I go to bed tonight, it pains me to think about what my human-ness has done to Christ. For Him I am eternally grateful. ETERNALLY grateful.
