Jesus always chose his words carefully. There was great meaning and intention behind each word, part of which we can only begin to understand by listening carefully. How much more, then, should we pay attention to Jesus’s very last words? The ones he painfully uttered as he was dying on the cross? What do these words reveal about the heart of God? Jesus’s whole life was about the Father’s business, and his last words begin and end with “Father.”
Meditate on these words — let them tell you the truth about God, and about your relationship with him. Let Jesus restore you, a son or daughter, to the Father.
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