Bad Friday or Good Friday?
You know how it feels. You, or someone you love is hurting so much. No one else could possibly understand this pain. You think “Can this be real? Am I dreaming?” Maybe your closest friend or family member just passed away, and everywhere you look, people are just fine. They’re laughing. They’re carefree. They’re going on with their busy lives, and you think, “How could life be going on when I hurt so much?”
I’ve been there, and I know how life can go on. It is because of this day. This is Good Friday, the day that should be commemorated with thanksgiving, celebrations, and everywhere we look are crosses adorned with neon lights, bands playing, choirs singing. People everywhere should be paying homage and offering tributes because of this GOOD day.
Good Friday. Isn’t that an oxymoron? Isn’t “Good Friday” a self-contradicting phrase? How can anything GOOD come from the lies, the rejection, the agonizing torture to ultimate death on a cross of an innocent, kind, good, loving and healing Servant. Who could celebrate Jesus’ death on the cross today?
We can. We can celebrate because God’s love and grace came to us soaked in divine blood on this day. The Cross is God’s answer to the question, “Why don’t you do something about evil?” “Why do You let bad things happen to good people?” God did do something. One look at His Son on the cross silenced the argument that God doesn’t care about human suffering.
Jesus could have called 10,000 angels to save Him, but He didn’t. This good, good Man was willing to endure the cross for the sake of our salvation — to pay all the debts of sin we owed. He embraced this fate because He loved us so much!
Without Jesus’ death, we could never know Him. We could never have eternal life. Our salvation cost a lot. And Jesus thought “they’re worth it”. And that is what’s so good about Good Friday. There is no such thing as a resurrection without a death. There is no such thing as an Easter without a Good Friday.
What is this message? For us, to never again wonder if we are loved. God thought our eternal life was worth the death of His only Son. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him, would never perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
How could we be so distracted and be so oblivious to this Good Friday? Never again, do we wonder if we are loved. God thought our eternal life was worth the death of His only Son. Now that’s true love! GOOD FRIDAY! Oh, happy day! This DAY is worth the grandest celebration — this day marks our FREE PASS to heaven.
May we remember Him on the cross today…praise Him…thank Him…. worship Him…and give Him our lives today. After all, He gave Himself so completely for us.
Hold on, Children! This is Friday. Sunday is coming when we will be a part of the ultimate victory celebration of resurrection. Good Friday really is so so GOOD!