WHEN Jesus was about to dismiss His spirit to the Father He cried, “It is finished!” thus indicating the consummation of the work of redemption. When the course of this present evil age shall have come to its conclusion a voice will be heard crying, “It is done”; thus declaring that at long last God’s tolerance of iniquity shall have reached its end, and He will purge the world by judgment.
How restful it is to know that nothing takes God by surprise, but that He works all things according to a prearranged plan. “Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.” He has never abdicated His throne as the moral Governor of the universe however much men may ignore Him, and even though Satan is acknowledged by them as the god and prince of this world. Amid all the changing scenes of earth we who trust in the living God may be at peace, for we know He has set a limit beyond which iniquity cannot go, even as lie says to the waves of the sea, “Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.”
“Before Jehovah’s awful throne,
Ye nations, bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and He destroy.
Wide as the world is Thy command;
Vast as eternity Thy love;
Firm as a rock Thy truth shall stand.
When rolling years shall cease to move?”
—Isaac Watts.