IT is finished!” It was only one word of the Greek that Jesus uttered but it told of a completed work to which nothing now can be added. There on the cross He bore the full penalty for sin. He paid the utmost farthing. The anxious sinner seeking salvation has nothing to do but believe the message in order to enter into peace. Nothing can be added to a finished work. To attempt to add to it is but to spoil it. The debt is paid, sin is atoned for. The guilty soul is instantly cleansed from every stain, and justified freely by His grace, when he puts his trust in Jesus, and rests upon that finished work.
“Nothing to pay? —no, not a whit:
Nothing to do? —no, not a bit;
All that was needed to do or to pay,
Jesus has done in His own blessed way.
Nothing to do? — no, not a stroke;
Gone is the captor, gone is the yoke:
Jesus at Calvary severed the chain,
And none can imprison His freeman again.
Nothing to settle? — all has been paid;
Nothing of anger? — peace has been made:
Jesus alone is the sinner’s resource,
Peace He has made by the blood of His cross.”