"I'm finished!" The little boy who is trying to hide his peas under his napkin. He's not really finished; he's just hoping Mom will overlook it this time. And it doesn't matter that this tactic hasn't worked in the past. He'll try it every time!
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"Finished!" The relieved college student after the last final exam. Finished the task, but the results are still up in the air...
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"Finished!" The weary mom who has put the kids to bed and done the dishes and swept the floor and picked up the toys and put away the laundry...just in time to fall into bed and get up tomorrow and do it all over, because a mother's work is never done!
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"It is finished," Jesus said as He breathed His last breath, hanging on a blood-soaked cross between two thieves, the final stage in a horrific and humiliating process. Unlike the boy and his peas, Jesus isn't trying to hide anything; it is what it is -- these sinful people made in God's image are unable to save themselves, so someone has to do it for them. And unlike the college student, the results are a foregone conclusion -- God promised a Savior. Jesus is it, so when the sacrifice is made, that is the end of it. And unlike the weary mom, it is finished. It doesn't need to be done again tomorrow.
It is finished.
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