God’s plan, formulated in eternity before creation, was finished. Jesus wasn’t referring just to His life, or His earthly ministry, or even His agony on the cross. What was finished was His mission in coming to Earth. All that He had done had led to this moment. He came to teach us about God and to become the sacrificial lamb that takes away our sin. We will never know the level of sacrifice it took to put up with the physical pain and the spiritual pain. Jesus, the only one who never knew sin, became all of our sin. He became the sin of all of us and died. Jesus, who in all of eternity had never been separated from the Father, was separated on the cross as he became defiled by my sin. When He said “It is finished,” He declared the redemptive work of God was finished. The plan God made in love to bring us back to Himself was finished. Jesus’ mission was accomplished.
We must never forget the price that God paid to reunite us with Himself, to give us eternal life. His level of love and sacrifice boggles our minds. And it shows us how seriously God takes sin. He is so serious about it that He sent Jesus to be crucified to make provision for it. Knowing this, how dare we lightly shrug off sin. How dare we say: “Oh, that’s my weakness. That’s the way God made me.” We need to take our sin as seriously as God did, as seriously as God does.
Spend some time in prayer thanking God for what the Lord did to provide you with forgiveness. Pray about how you perceive sin and repent again, overwhelmed by the cost of your sin.