Celebrate Good Friday
Maybe I don't get it...I understand what happened - what we remember today...Good Friday...I'm knowledgeable of what a cat-of-nine-tails is. I've studied what happens to the body on a crucifix. I've walked the Villa Delarosa strip through which Jesus carried the cross. I've seen the eyes of those who despise. I know what a tiny splinter feels like on healthy closed skin, and can only imagine what raw wood feels like rubbing against open flesh, tendons, nerves, and bone. But I don't get it when people say "This was not a Good Friday." Yes, this was a horrible suffering. Yes, this was inhumane. But, LORD, oh Lord!!! Victory was WON today!!! You said "It is accomplished!" Some versions say "It is finished." You took the authority of Satan away once and for all. Oh, don't get me wrong, he still has power, Lord, you know I can feel that, but he has NO authority. NO authority. Oh Lord, this was a Good Friday I remember. You made a way - THE way. You are the Way, the truth and the life!! Every messed up thought I have, every failure I forge full force into, every sin I commit when I choose not to resist enough, every sin in Your eyes, against only You do I sin, that I commit that I don't even realize...and the one's I don't admit...even the ones I admit, the ones I confess, but I find myself doing again and confessing again - YOU took those from me. You bore those on a Good Friday. By Your wounds I am healed. By Your last breath "It is finished," I am made an heir, a child, a spotless, blameless beloved. Maybe I don't get it...but I think this WAS a Good Friday. Disciples who once did not commit, now souled out. Your own brother, who could not believe, now believed. A disciple who swore all, who flaked, now realized with all the passionate blood in his body what it would take to really give all. The disciple whom you loved, gave your mother a new son for the One she gave. And by their written words, I've found You. LORD, oh Lord, this WAS a Good Friday.
JESUS
IN CHEMISTRY, HE TURNED WATER TO WINE.
IN BIOLOGY, HE WAS BORN WITHOUT THE NORMAL CONCEPTION.
IN PHYSICS, HE DISPROVED THE LAW OF GRAVITY WHEN HE
ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN.
IN ECONOMICS, HE DISPROVED THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURN BY
FEEDING 5,000 MEN WITH TWO FISHES & 5 LOAVES OF BREAD.
IN MEDICINE, HE CURED THE SICK AND THE BLIND, WITHOUT
ADMINISTERING A SINGLE DOSE OF DRUGS.
IN HISTORY, HE IS THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
IN GOVERNMENT, HE SAID THAT HE SHALL BE CALLED WONDERFUL
COUNSELOR, PRINCE OF PEACE.
IN RELIGION, HE SAID NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT
THROUGH HIM.
JESUS HAD NO SERVANTS, YET THEY CALLED HIM MASTER, HAD NO
DEGREE, YET THEY CALLED HIM TEACHER; HAD NO MEDICINES, YET THEY CALLED
HIM HEALER.
HE HAD NO ARMIES, YET RULERS FEARED HIM.
HE WON NO MILITARY BATTLES, YET HE CONQUERED THE WORLD.
HE COMMITTED NO CRIME, YET THEY CRUCIFIED HIM.
HE WAS BURIED IN A TOMB, YET HE LIVES TODAY.
I FEEL HONORED TO SERVE SUCH A MAGNIFICENT LEADER AND ONE WHO LOVES US SO MUCH HE WAS WILLING TO TAKE OUR PUNISHMENT FOR SINS ONTO HIMSELF!
CELEBRATE HIM THIS DAY. CELEBRATE HIM THIS EASTER, BECAUSE HE IS WORTHY.