Prayers from the Cross of Jesus: # 6 "It Is Finished"

Hiraeth Community Prayers

Contemplating and meditating on the 7 Cries of Jesus on the Cross recorded in the gospels. In this prayer, a reflection on what Christ has achieved as much as what He said, we can consider how the old sacrifices were repeated day after day, year after year. With respect to those old sacrifices, they were “finished” only to be repeated the next.

It should overwhelm with thankfulness that what Jesus is done is complete indeed. And yet we are still longing for His work in us to be completed.

Written and read by Sammy Davies

Inspired by John 19:30

Over

Finished

Accomplished

Your suffering has ceased

Our salvation achieved

For You came to make a way

And a way You made - through blood and tears

How hard we would otherwise struggle

To make ourselves acceptable

How burdensome the task

To make ourselves somehow ‘lovely’

How costly it had seemed to offer again and again

How costly was the single gift You gave

Once sacrifices were on repeat

But this Lamb is enough

You hung where our lives lead

And in rescuing, deliver us where You are

You have set us apart

So make us HOLY in our lives

You have changed everything for us

So LORD please change us

There is nothing we can do

So put us to the work You have prepared

Amen