it is finished...

finished
done
over

you've heard it in conversations...

someone said it-
and it hung in the air with such finality.

finished.

on a Thursday...
so many years ago...
Jesus
hung on the cross
suspended between heaven and earth...
he'd been talked about...
betrayed...
beaten...
mocked
and finally
crucified.

He hung there between two thieves...
one asking to join him in paradise
and the other too caught up in his crisis to see his salvation was within arms reach...

and it was there...
on that hill
where the earth quaked,
and the veil ripped...
that Jesus uttered his parting phrase-

It Is Finished

He. was. done...

but unlike how that phrase may have played out in our experiences-
Jesus gave it a whole new definition...

He , in His last moments, didn't give in or give up...
No, my friends...
what looked like defeat
was really a declaration...

to Satan himself...

The blood-

covered the sin
the shame...
the guilt...
the mistakes...
for all time and eternity...


and today-
wherever you are
whatever you are facing
no matter your past
regardless of what you did
said
thought
or considered

the same words that fell  from Golgotha on that dark Thursday...
echo throughout time...

It Is Finished

He won.
Won't you consider letting Him tend your heart?

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

Romans 10:9-10