Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
31 they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
that he has done it.
We celebrate a job well done but first it must get done. We celebrate the fact that man landed on the moon. We don’t celebrate that they almost made it. When Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, they shouted, “He did it!” It would have been different if he had gotten two thirds of the way and splashed down. We call these people winners. David called them winners but he had one in particular in mind. This one would win by losing.
For dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;
they have pierced my hands and feet
That does not sound like a winner. David may not have known how, but he knew that this was the Messiah and that through suffering to the end, the world would change.
We are called to complete our mission to make disciples and love our neighbor. Almost doesn’t quite cut it. Imagine if Jesus Christ had come to earth, taught the people to be nice, got arrested, escaped, and lived a life in exile somewhere. The job would not be finished and we would be without hope. May we honor the finishing power of Jesus Christ by striving to finish the race and fight the fight, as Paul did before his job was finished and he received the crown of righteousness. May we remember that Jesus Christ carried his cross on the Via Dolorosa and when he was hanging on the cross in agony, could proclaim, “it is finished.” Let us celebrate a job well done and that…
He has done it!
Pastor Brad Boyer
Cape Community Church