One of my favorite words is very short. It is the word “DONE.” When I have a long To-Do list, it is fun to be able to cross off one item and write “Done” beside it, especially if it was an important one.
One of my favorite words is very short. It is the word “DONE.” When I have a long To-Do list, it is fun to be able to cross off one item and write “Done” beside it, especially if it was an important one.
I expect even you school children may have To-Do lists:
1. Work on math homework (ugh)
2. Work on my science project (this one is fun)
3. Clean up my room (it’s always on the list)
4. Set the table for dinner (tonight’s my turn, again)
5. Scrub the mud off my boots (it was fun getting the mud on)
And grown-ups always seem to have To-Do lists, and usually they don’t get everything on their lists finished. They just keep adding more things to replace what has been crossed off with the word “Done” beside it.
If God were to have a To-Do list, one item would be Number 1 and would have been the most important of all and the very hardest of all! It must have caused Him great pain rather than pleasure to do it. That most important item became the greatest Number 1 the world has ever known:
1. PROVIDE A WAY OF SALVATION AND FORGIVENESS TO ALL SINNERS!
We humans brought sin into God’s perfect world and ruined it. As a result, we have been separated from Him by our sins and face punishment for them, which we deserve. But God is a God of love, and He and His Son had a plan to fulfill that difficult Number 1. When the right time came, God sent His own beloved Son, Jesus, to earth to die on a cross. He came willingly as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, that all who trust Him for their soul’s salvation will be saved. The Bible tells us that the last words of the Lord Jesus on the cross were, “It is finished!” (John 19:3030When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:30)). God’s own Son, by His terrible suffering and death on the cross, has fully paid the required penalty for sin! As a result, the door to heaven was opened, and it is still open today to “whosoever will”! The way of salvation was crossed off as “DONE”! “Come ... and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:1717And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. (Revelation 22:17)). “The Lord is ... not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:99The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)).
He is waiting and willing to save every single person who comes to Him for salvation, and by coming, your name will be written in the Book of Life with the word “DONE!” beside it. Then “there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth” (Luke 15:1010Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. (Luke 15:10)).
If accepting the Lord Jesus as your Saviour is still on your To-Do list, do it now and have the joy of crossing it off as DONE!
ML-01/01/2012