A Follower's Thought...

John 19:30 says, "When Jesus had received the wine, he said, 'It is finished.' Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." I got to thinking about this verse and especially his last three words, "It is finished." As I was reflecting on these three words, I said to myself, "What powerful words these are!" With these three words, Jesus fulfilled his mission on Earth. Jesus was born to die, to save us from our sins. Do we deserve it? No! None of us do.

We as humans, as I see it, have two problems that we have a hard time overcoming, and frankly can do nothing about. Those two problems are sin and death. No matter what we do or how hard we try, we can’t fix these problems by ourselves or with anyone’s help, except one, Jesus Christ! We are all born sinners. Romans 5:12 says, "Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned." Romans 3:23 says "for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord."

What I am saying is this, we will never get out of this world alive with sin and death looming over us. Only one can save us. Jesus! He conquered our sin by dying on a cross, and he conquered our death by rising on the third day. You want to conquer sin and death? Say yes to Jesus. I’m just saying, in my opinion, there is no other way out of this world alive. With those last three words, "It is finished", Jesus bowed to the world and ushered in the chance of eternal life. I pray we all bow our heads to Jesus and welcome his free gift of eternal life.

God bless,

Correll Pritchard