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Seven Last Words Daily Devotional -33

by David Joynt on March 21, 2021

Seven Last Words Daily Devotional -33

JOHN 19:30 | 30 When Jesus had received the wine, he said, “It is finished.” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

“It is finished.” What did Jesus mean in this short phrase? What was finished? Now this is a deep biblical word. It refers sometimes to something that ends and is over.

 Many things were over as Jesus breathed His last. There is relief in this statement, because His suffering and humiliation are over. The physical and emotional and spiritual trauma has come to an end. No suffering lasts forever in this earthly realm, and no pain is unlimited. Death stops agony.

 Pray for everyone carrying physical, emotional, or spiritual pain.

 Can you lessen someone’s pain today?

 

Tags: pain, lessen

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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