Dear People Who Keep Company With God,
“It is finished!” (John 19:30) These three words have been called, “The Greatest Words Ever Uttered by the Greatest Man That Ever Lived.” 
Leonard Ravenhill once said, “I don’t believe that ever in history, anywhere, at any time, by anybody were three words more pregnant with meaning than these three words given by one Man at the end of His life. It is finished. It is finished.”
What is finished? No one can fully answer this. It is sort of like trying to grasp the wind. I think everything of eternal significance is finished. Paul tells us “everything will be summed up in Christ. Both things on earth and things in heaven.” (Eph. 1:10)
The death of Christ is a high and holy mystery, difficult because it is contrary to all ordinary understandings. It is so difficult that even Jesus’s most privileged insiders couldn’t grasp the mystery.
The cross is our glory. It reveals not only the dreadfulness and depth of our fallen state, but also the extent to which our Father God’s love will go to save, heal, deliver and redeem us.
I don’t believe we can ever overstate what Christ has accomplished on the cross. Yet, the devil will do everything in his arsenal of lies to keep us from seeing the manginificenence and the power of the cross.
The Mirror Bible brings this thought out in a very lucid way.
I want you to hear the urgency of our appeal: we are co-employed and implore you not to take God’s grace for granted; what a shame it would be to see less in grace than what God does! The danger is not to exaggerate what happened to mankind in Christ, but rather to underestimate it! (2 Cor. 6:1)
One thing that is for sure finished is the devil. The cross is our victory. Satan appeared to be the victor. The triumph of evil seemed to be what was final. But this proved not to be true. Satan was utterly defeated, disarmed and shamed at the cross (Col. 2:15). Life, not death, had the last word. Light, not darkness, love not hate. God and not Satan is triumphant. Let’s not forget that in all our dealings with this defeated foe.
Here is a beautiful picture of that victory.
Corrie Ten Boom told how she met one of the Nazi S.S. guards who had abused her and her sister during the Holocaust. It was after the war, and the man had become a Christian. He offered her his hand. With all her humanity screaming for revenge, she prayed, “Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me Your forgiveness.”
She then took his outstretched hand, and immediately begun to sense a current flowing along her shoulder, down the arm, and through her hand into his. She started to feel an overwhelming love for her former enemy. She discovered — “It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His.”
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:14)
Here is a mysterious picture of that victory.
Jesus was beaten so horribly that Tischendorf, a Roman historian, claimed to have interviewed a Roman soldier who helped escort Mary the Mother of Jesus to the site of the cross. And Mary asked him, “Which one is he? Which one is my son?” Mary was not able to recognize her own son.
“Just as there were many who were appalled at him his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness (Is. 52:14).”
Many Blessings, BW