Finally Finished
When I started making a cedar strip canoe with my son, I thought we would finish the project in a month or two, working on it a few hours a week. Was I wrong.
Have you ever started a project that you thought you could do quickly that took much longer than expected. You ran short of materials, it was more complicated than you thought, or you got sidetracked doing something else.
Well, the canoe we were working on took up over half of my shop. We had no choice but to work on it whenever we could find time, until it was finished. We learned a lot about how to do things that we never did before. We had to learn to steam bend a solid piece of wood to form the bow and stern of the canoe, plus much more.
After two years there came the moment when we looked at it and said, it is finished. I will never forget that day.
Jesus came to earth and lived among us. It was a very difficult life. People did not understand Him and in the end, they spit on Him and put some thorns on His head and mocked Him. But He had a task to accomplish. It was His reason for living and that was He needed to die. As He hung on the cross, Jesus finally could say His work had been accomplished. He uttered His final words, It Is Finished. That is a day we will never forget.
“When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.” John 19:30 NIV
This is good.