the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished. And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. And he bowed his head and gave up the ghost. John 19:30; Luke 23:46.
Here bow the knee and worship! A greater word has never been uttered on earth; a word richer in results has never been heard. My soul, what is ’’finished? " Your redemption and eternal salvation; your justification and sanctification, and glory; the blotting out of your sins; the living hope of eternal glory; your sonship and heirship with God, yea, your second creation, or re-creation; your transformation from a child of darkness to a child of light; from the slave of sin to a child of grace; from a prey of hell to a member of the household of God and a fellow citizen of the saints in heaven; from being the haunt of an unclean spirit to the temple of God, the abode of the Holy Trinity. Who can express by name all that the Son of God has "finished" by His sufferings and death? All this is now yours; it is "finished" for you, prepared and ready; you may possess it and enjoy it; it is intended for you and offered to you in the Gospel. What would be more precious to the Son of God, whom the accomplishment of all this cost so much suffering, yea even death, than that you already had it all in your possession and enjoyed it, that He might see in your heart all these fruits of His redeeming work? The whole day He stretches forth His pierced hands to you, that He may pour into your lap and impart to you all that He has won by His bitter agony. ’’Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it," says the Lord. (Psalms 81:10). You shall be "abundantly satisfied with the fatness of His house" and "you shall drink of the river of His pleasures" (Psalms 36:8). Believe, love, hope. Give yourself with your whole soul to the Author and Finisher of your salvation, and all shall be yours, yours eternally. Do not glory in Christ and His grace with your lips only; but let your heart be filled with the power, the fulness and the grace of Christ’s redemption; then your mouth will overflow with His praises.
’Tis done! the precious ransom’s paid.
"Receive my soul," He cries;
See where He bows His sacred head!
He bows His head and dies!
