Luke 23:46, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and
having said thus, he gave up the ghost.”(Ps 31:5; Mt 27:50-51; Mark 15:37; John
19:30; 1Pe 2:23)
The seventh saying
of Jesus when He was being crucified was a statement of comital of His spirit
into the hands of God the Father. Jesus
willingly left the portals of glory; became Emmanuel God with us; ministered to
the needs of mankind; taught those who would listen; finished the work that the
Father had given Him to do; suffered and now was about to die for the sins of
the whole world. As has been recorded in
Joh 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do.” Surely Christ had
done everything that He came to this earth to do as St. John 17:4 recorded “I have
glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to
do.” Jesus was misunderstood and
persecuted while He was on this earth.
He came to earth to, as Luke 24:7 explains, “…be delivered into the
hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.”
We know that
Christ’s purpose for coming to this earth was to do His Father’s will when He
said in John 4:34, “… My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to
finish his work.” We also know from Matthew
26:39 that Jesus was intent on doing the will of God the Father when he prayed
in the garden, “O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me:
nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.”
Since the incarnate Christ was not only very God but also very man, from
a human standpoint it was very difficult for Him to suffer and die on the cross
of Calvary. Nevertheless, He was
obedient to His Father’s will. None of
us have anything to do during this Easter season that is as difficult as what
Christ had to endure. So, If you have
been given a difficult spiritual task by Our heavenly Father, be assured that
God’s grace will be sufficient to see you through that difficult task.
Song for the Day “God’s
Great Grace” by Floyd W. Hawkins
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