It Is Finished

     This being the Easter season, I stopped, as many others did today, and reflected on the great sacrifice that Christ made for me on Calvary.  I reviewed the events that unfolded from His betrayal until His death.  And while many things stuck out to me, it was those last three words of our Savior that hit me the hardest today, "It is finished".  In our English language it is translated into three words, in the Greek, it is just one word, tetelestai.  And what a word it is!  The job has been completed!  Christ came to this earth to complete a task, and He competed it.  Jesus, Himself, said that He came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and give His life a ransom for many. That is the job that He completed that day when He cried out It is finished.  The sacrifice has been made, It is finished.  The sin debt has been paid in full, It is finished.  There was no more work to be done, It was finished.  And it was at that point, that He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.  Christ did what no one else could do, He took our sin and punishment upon Himself, and washed our sin away.  And then, when the work was completed He made that cry of completion, It is finished!