Lent Day 36
Good Friday – the day we pause and reflect on the sacrifice
of Jesus and His willingness to give himself to human authority in order to be
sacrificed for those that believe and give us hope of salvation and an eternal
life in the kingdom of God. What seems
so wrong and evil and the absolute worst, was all a part of God’s plan to bring
us the best.
I cannot think of what to write today. Nothing I can think to put on paper seems
worthy of what Jesus went through for me today.
So, I will leave you with these words from scripture. I hope you will take some time today to read
through them, visually picture what this day was like for Christ, feel the
emotion his disciples and His mother Mary must have felt watching. Imagine what He was thinking. It was the ultimate act of love. Absorb what that means. Christ suffered and died on a cross all so
you would be forgiven for your sins. He
suffered and died to open the door for you to have a path to His kingdom.
The disciples did not have the opportunity to look ahead to
Sunday. They could only remain in their
grief of what they had just witnessed and who they had lost. Too often I skip over today and think ahead
to Sunday and I miss the greatest act of love anyone has ever done for me.
Isaiah 53:3-9
He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man
of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised, and we held
him in low esteem. Surely he took up our
pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by
him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed
for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his
wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has
turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not
open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth. By
oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation
protested? For he was cut off from the
land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and
with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit
in his mouth.
1 Peter 3:18
For
Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring
you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.
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