So many thoughts and directions I could go in with this blog and I wanted to wait until I had a more detailed outline created in my head, but God reminded me that stepping out into faith does not always come with an outline. 

I am absolutely letting the Holy Spirit move me with this one. We will see how I start and where He takes me.

“It is finished.” The final words of Jesus before He died on the cross. The finality of it. Finality is defined as “the fact of impression of being an irreversible ending.” Up until recently, I always struggled with the finality of things. Whether it was death, a decision, a relationship or friendship that ended, etc. The fear of missing out on something better has always kept me in an almost constant space of wondering what would have happened if I chose the other option. Even when God clearly called me in one direction and I followed Him and made the decision He told me to, I still had the tendency to go back and forth in my head for quite awhile after and wonder if the finality of that situation was correct.

Now imagine if Jesus did that with us. Imagine if Jesus went back and forth and second guessed His path and what the Father called of him to do. Imagine if instead of Jesus saying, “It is finished” he took the finality out of his death and said, “Wait. I need to think about this more to make sure I am making the right decision.”

Matthew 26:39 states “And going a little further he (Jesus) threw himself on the ground and prayed, “My father if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.” Further in this passage in verse 42 Jesus prays a second time and says, “My father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.” Finally, in verse 44 he walks away and says the same prayer. 

Jesus choosing the finality of death did not mean he did not try and seek another way out. He knew what he was going to experience would be painful and agonizing and outright torture. He knew what to expect and he asked his Father for another way. But when God made it clear that there was no other way, He accepted it. 

It is time for us to accept what God has for our life and stand in the finality of it. 

The beauty and grace of the redemption Christ gave us by sacrificing His life can only be answered with us saying, “It is finished,” to everything else, but Him.