It is Finished!

The album ends here, and it ends on the one word in the Christian faith that is past tense and done. It is finished. Not being finished. Not almost. Finished - a cry that, the song says, broke out through eternity.

I put one verse in this song aimed straight at a specific error, and I want to be plain about it. Some still say, Not yet, not quite, as though His cross waits on our might. There is a whole way of doing Christianity that keeps the cross slightly open - that needs your effort, your decision, your performance to complete what Christ supposedly only started. The song calls that what it is, a shifting of His Word. We add no thing to what He gave. His finished work alone HAS SAVED. Past tense. Has saved. You cannot finish a finished thing.

And notice where the album chose to stop. In the Little Things spent fourteen songs on faithfulness, wounds, gatekeeping, and love - all the things we are called to do and to suffer. Then it closes by taking the weight of all of it off your back. No more striving. The little things still matter, but they were never holding up your salvation. That was finished on a tree before you drew a breath. The last word of the album is rest - let us rest in what He's done - and it is the only word strong enough to end on.