Framing the day with the finished work of Jesus Christ is like getting the top button in the right button hole - everything that follows will turn out for good. However often we start the day with what we need to do or haven't done as the case may be. In other words we are kicking the day off with our unfinished work.
When Jesus cried out "It is finished" over 2000 years ago, the plan of God to rescue and restore people to Himself was ready to be realised on earth. The substance of His plan was and still is about restoring community with Himself. This finished work satisfied all of the requirements of a holy God to usher in reconciliation and wholeness between Himself and us. The initiative was His. He made the first move because He first loved us. His doing (His actions) through His death and resurrection, prepared the way for our being to be re-established with Him. Our being can never be established because of our doing. It was His doing that now realises our being.
That's why we need to get the top button in the right hole. Starting with what He has done every day is like engaging Him to make good of everything that happens during the day including the things that we may not deem good. When we acknowledge that He is in charge, He can get good, that is good for us, out of both the bad and even the downright ugly!
When we acknowledge that " we are products of His finished work", we begin to rest in Him because we are trusting Him to work both in us and through us.
Adapted from Ross Smiths book; "It is Finished".
To purchase "It is Finished" goto: www.thevine.org.au/resources.html
Ross Smith is the Senior Pastor of The Vine Church Logan, QLD Australia.
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