September 22: All Things Now Ready

Narrator: Chris Genthree
 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 3
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OH 19:30{Even if you did not heed nor believe any other words of Jesus, could you—can you—doubt His dying words? Surely they are worthy of all acceptation! What are they? "It is finished!" What is finished? "I have finished the work that Thou gavest me to do." And what is that work? Simply the work of our salvation. That is the reason why all things are now ready, because Jesus has finished that all-inclusive work. When a thing is finished, how much is there left to do? The question sounds too absurd with respect to ordinary things. We hardly take the trouble to answer, "Why nothing, of course!" When Jesus has finished the work, how much is there left for you to do? Do you not see? Nothing, of course! You have only to accept that work as really finished, and accept His dying declaration that it is so. What further assurance would you have? Is not this enough? Does your heart say Yes, or No?
Oh believe the Lord hath done it!
Wherefore linger? Wherefore doubt?
All the clouds of black transgression
He Himself hath blotted out.
He hath done it! Come and bless Him.
Swell the grand thanksgiving shout
Evermore and evermore.