Finished
“These words spake Jesus…I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do” (John 17:1,4).
Seeking something to while away his time, Hudson Taylor turned over a basket of tracts in his father’s library and selected one that looked interesting. While reading it he was struck with the phrase, “The finished work of Christ.” Immediately the words attracted his attention. “What was finished?” he asked himself. Reading further, the tract explained the finished work as, “a full and perfect atonement and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world.”
Then Hudson thought, “If the whole work was finished on the cross of Calvary, and the whole debt of sin paid, what is there left for me to do?” Hudson was thus convinced, as the light of God’s truth flashed into his soul by the Holy Spirit. He later stated: “There was nothing to be done but to fall down on my knees and accept the Saviour and His salvation, and praise Him forever.”
Hudson Taylor was seventeen years old at the time. He then went on to faithfully serve his Lord and Saviour for many years in China.
