Today, Good Friday, is the day we remember Jesus Christ’s ultimate sacrifice — his excruciating death on the cross for our sins.
There’s so much that happened on Good Friday.
There’s Judas’ betrayal.
Peter’s denials.
There’s the mockery of a trial.
A crown of thorns.
A beating that no man could’ve survived.
A mother watching her son beaten and battered.
Jesus carrying the cross.
People, who once rejoiced when they saw him, now spitting at him, yelling at him, and throwing stones.
Roman soldiers driving spikes and nails into his hands and feet.
Hours on the cross. Jesus pushing himself up on nailed feet just to catch a breath.
Then there’s the thief next to him, accepting Christ as his savior.
And Jesus crying out to God on behalf of his killers, “Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do.”
Then a slow, agonizing, suffocating death.
“It is finished.”
A pierced side.
His killers gambling over his clothes.
An earthquake.
A storm.
The veil in the temple torn in two.
A world plunged into darkness.
Disciples scattering, hiding as outlaws, waiting for three long days.
Doubt.
Was Jesus telling the truth?
Looking at that list, it’s hard to find the “good” in Good Friday. But Good Friday is the day the entire world changed. It’s when Jesus died as the perfect sacrificial Lamb and made it possible for us to accept him and find salvation — and, ultimately, eternal life with the Father.
Sometimes people need to hear about the grittiness and the sadness to understand that these things happened, that they’re real. Real lives. Real death. Real grace and forgiveness. Real salvation.
That’s something that deserves some rejoicing!
So, take the time today to tell someone about Good Friday.
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