Christian Writers Circle

Faithful Finish

by Brenda D. Flowers

And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. (John 17: 3-5, NKJV)

At the time of the writing of this post, it is Resurrection Sunday as many Christians prefer to call Easter. I am sitting in my car looking at the beautiful blossoms on nearby dogwood trees, meditating upon God’s faithfulness in completing His rescue mission successfully.

As I write, I wonder how many people today or in the coming days will think about God’s faithfulness in planning and completing His mission to give all, who trust in Jesus, His resurrection life, eternal life with Him.

When you read this post, many days will have passed since our holiday to remember Jesus’s resurrection. Are we awake to His presence in our lives?

God sent His Son, Jesus, to be the Way for humanity to have eternal life. I believe God’s Word.

The more I read the Bible the more I see God’s planned rescue mission. I read the words of the many prophecies that spoke of His mission.

I am awed by Jesus’s own words testifying of God’s plan as recorded in all of the gospels. But I am especially touched by Luke’s account of the two men on the road to Emmaus talking with Jesus.

These men had been in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial. They had heard the astonishing testimonies by the women who discovered that Jesus’s body was no longer in the tomb and who had spoken to angels. They had heard the testimonies of disciples who had also gone to see the empty tomb for themselves and had confirmed that the tomb was empty just as the women had said. But these men still did not understand or believe that Jesus had risen from the dead. And in their doubt and disbelief, they did not recognize Jesus was with them, walking and talking with them.

As I read over Jesus’s words to them, I am challenged to evaluate my own daily faith:

“O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. (Luke 24: 25-27, NKJV)

When these men returned to Jerusalem to be with the other disciples, they told about the things that had happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread. (Luke 24: 35)

The testimonies of eye witnesses of Jesus in His resurrection body inspire me to trust in God’s faithful completion of His mission.