GOOD FRIDAY REFLECTION: IT IS FINISHED
Biblical Passages to Read:
Ezekiel 47 & John 19: 28 – 37
At the heart of the Temple is an altar – a place of sacrifice. The pictures of Ezekiel reflect a river that got deeper and deeper – and the prophet could no longer stand, but had to swim. Many of us have arm bands when we start to learn to swim, but we cannot wear them forever. We have to take them off, in order to really swim – we have to go deeper in order to really grow and go with God. We have to come to the altar and surrender everything there is, so that we are where God wants us, so we are moving on, so we are knowing refreshing and healing, from that river which flows from the altar of God. All Gods blessings must begin with the altar, and in reality that altar brings us to the death of Christ, to the cross. Here Christ cried….it is finished. Surrender is about dying.
A song written many generations ago shares these words:- “People want to go to heaven, but are not prepared to die!” Whatever we think about Easter, it is very much about Death as well as Life, and life only comes when we are prepared to die. When we too cry – It is Finished. Into the very hands of God we place our lives and we start then to really start to experience all God has for us, for we are totally in His hands and His will and His purpose.
Spend some time considering what it is we have not given over to God, for surrender is about surrendering everything. It is about bowing before the altar of God, the Cross, and giving up our all to do our Masters will.
Ezekiel 47 & John 19: 28 – 37
At the heart of the Temple is an altar – a place of sacrifice. The pictures of Ezekiel reflect a river that got deeper and deeper – and the prophet could no longer stand, but had to swim. Many of us have arm bands when we start to learn to swim, but we cannot wear them forever. We have to take them off, in order to really swim – we have to go deeper in order to really grow and go with God. We have to come to the altar and surrender everything there is, so that we are where God wants us, so we are moving on, so we are knowing refreshing and healing, from that river which flows from the altar of God. All Gods blessings must begin with the altar, and in reality that altar brings us to the death of Christ, to the cross. Here Christ cried….it is finished. Surrender is about dying.
A song written many generations ago shares these words:- “People want to go to heaven, but are not prepared to die!” Whatever we think about Easter, it is very much about Death as well as Life, and life only comes when we are prepared to die. When we too cry – It is Finished. Into the very hands of God we place our lives and we start then to really start to experience all God has for us, for we are totally in His hands and His will and His purpose.
Spend some time considering what it is we have not given over to God, for surrender is about surrendering everything. It is about bowing before the altar of God, the Cross, and giving up our all to do our Masters will.
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