Some time ago I received an email that was titled, " I'm dying to be with you ", the truth is that I do not intend to tell the whole story, only commenting that it was mentioned that this expression so tender and passionate in some way was an analogy to what Christ did for us, he literally could say, "dying to be with you" and in fact what he did on the cross of Calvary, he knew he would never be on our merits alongside his father, he died to be with you, me and all those who receive and believe on his name. John writes in his gospel in the capítulo19 verse 30: "By testing the vinegar Jesus said: - It is finished. He bowed his head and gave up the ghost."
We're coming back to celebrate Easter, a date certainly important for the Christian world, the date on which we remember the death and resurrection of our Lord, and I wanted to share this passage because I think it holds the act of supreme love bigger than man can know Jesus Christ, Son of God, as Phil did not cling to his divinity, but being a perfect man gave his life for humanity, for every one of us.
The text that I used corresponds to the NIV says "It is finished" , the King James Version translates this portion as "It is finished" , in both cases this expression is a translation of the word Greek "Tetelestai" expression corresponding to a marketing term and is also translated as "is paid" or "The debt has been paid"
Perhaps if this is how I like, because the reality is that Jesus, when he was about to expire says "The debt has been paid, the price our sins was paid in that moment through the blood that Jesus shed on the cross, it is true that salvation is free, nothing we can do to get it, primarily because the price is unattainable for anyone and because, as expressed This text has already been paid and God in his boundless love gives us, but the fact remains that the price was paid for our salvation was too high, the perfect man, spotless, without sin, chose to die to give us eternal life says Isaiah 53 "Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken, beaten by God, and afflicted.
He was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, upon him was the chastisement of our peace, and by his wounds we are healed.
all gone astray like sheep, each following his own path, but the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. "
How sad to think that today many despise this gift, completely ignoring the real meaning the redemptive work of Christ, but it is also true that it is our responsibility to deliver the message of salvation to those who do not know.
Jesus was willing to die to give us eternal life, he was willing to pay the price for our salvation Today is time that we too are willing to die, and this means being able to say like Paul, "no longer I who live, Christ lives in me" , are you ready?, well hopefully, because that's the point, that one day he gave his life for you, now wants to make you his home, guiding you every day, take care of you, hold you, comfort you, chide, it is now time to die to our selves and be reborn in Jesus Christ, the only mediator between God and men, no other.
end this little debate with the words of the Apostle Paul to the Romans:
"I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, neither the present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love God has shown us in Christ Jesus our Lord. "
Remember, Tetelestai, debt has been paid
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