What's Your Voice?

Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.
Matthew 27:50

1. This was a sign, that after all His pains and fatigues, His life was whole in Him and nature strong. The voice of dying men is one of the first things that fails; with a panting breath and a faltering tongue, a few broken words are hardly spoken and more hardly heard.

But Christ, just before He expired, spoke like a man in His full strength, to show that His life was not forced from Him, but was freely delivered by Him into His Father's hands, as His own act and deed. He that had strength to cry thus when He died, could have got loose from the arrest He was under, and have bid defiance to the powers of death, but to show that by the eternal Spirit He offered Himself, being the Priest as well as the Sacrifice, He cried with a loud voice.

2. It was significant. This loud voice shows that He attacked our spiritual enemies with an undaunted courage, and such a bravery of resolution as bespeaks Him hearty in the cause and daring in the encounter. He was now spoiling principalities and powers and in this loud voice He did, as it were, shout for mastery, as one mighty to save.

His crying with a loud voice when He died signified that His death should be published and proclaimed to all the world; all mankind being concerned in it, and obliged to take notice of it. Christ's loud cry was like a trumpet blown over the sacrifices. (Matthew Henry)

In teaching writing I'll tell my students to find their voice within their stories. It's a writer's term; it can tell a lot about a person. What is our voice within our relationship with Christ?