Celebrating the Good in Good Friday
Jesus’ sacrifice on the Cross is His one momentous act that set us free from sin. This sacrifice, as horrible and painful as it was, is what gives us our Salvation. So shouldn’t we celebrate on Good Friday too?
Hello Readers, hope all’s well. Time for another post.
Today is Good Friday, the day when we honor the sacrifice of our LORD and Savior and Love on the Cross. Today is the day when we reflect on His agonizing and humiliating death, a punishment reserved for the most heinous criminals. Certainly not a punishment for someone who healed the sick, the blind, threw demons out of people, and more. But that’s how it went.
Today is the day we honor Jesus’ sacrifice. And because of the horrific nature of His death, Good Friday is often a somber occasion for many. But should it be? Does it need to be?
My answer is: Yes and no. Yes we should reflect on the pain of the horrible death Jesus endured for us. But at the same time, we should celebrate on Good Friday too. When Jesus died on the Cross for us, He paid the price for our sins and set us free. He took the punishment we deserve. And not only that, our sins will be Forgiven if we have Faith in Jesus and accept Him as our LORD and Savior and Love. On Good Friday we remember the act that was Jesus’ ultimate victory, the act that offers us Salvation if we believe.
Isn’t that worth celebrating? That’s what I have in mind as I write this post for Good Friday, the day we honor the death of our LORD Jesus on the Cross.
He Died for Our Sins … but We Can’t Stop Sinning
Jesus died for our sins. He suffered a brutal and humiliating execution. So if we love Jesus and believe in what He did for us, we should never sin, right? Because we don’t want to dishonor His sacrifice-we want to live up to what He did for us. We want to stay worthy of His sacrifice, don’t we??
Heh. Good luck with that.
On the day we honor the sacrifice Jesus made, we need to understand (as best we can with our human minds) the Spiritual significance of what Jesus did for us on the Cross. What it…
