It is finished
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Editor,
Easter is significantly more than a celebration of cuddly bunnies, colored eggs and a new wardrobe. History records that God the Son died naked, nailed to a wooden cross embedded on a low hill called “the skull” just outside the city of Jerusalem. Why? The ancient Prophet, Isaiah, writing of the coming Messiah, declared, they shall see my Servant beaten and bloodied, so disfigured one would scarcely know it was a person standing there … We despised him and rejected him … We turned our backs on him and looked the other way … He was despised and we didn’t care … He was wounded and bruised for our sins … God laid on him the guilt and sins of every one of us.
Mel Gibson’s epic film, The Passion of the Christ, left most of us red eyed and speechless as we exited Polson’s Showboat theater a few years ago; could our celebration of Good Friday ever be the same again?
I suppose that there are many people who pay little attention to history’s most notable events and significant pronouncements; “God laid on him the guilt and punishment of the sins of every one of us.” Imagine that. History’s only sinless soul being made sin so that we could experience God the Father’s forgiveness. How deep and dark must have been those lonely hours which Jesus passed through as the race’s sin-bearer; hear him cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus Christ became God-forsaken as he received the punishment of our sins on the cross in the mid-day darkness at Golgotha. Can we ever thank Him enough?
With dying breath, He proclaimed His victory, “It is finished.” The punishment for all sins for all time He paid. By Jesus’ death, pardon and forgiveness is offered to all who acknowledge their sin and confess their need of Christ the Savior.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
