God's Amazing Love For Us!
Good Friday? What is this day truly and really about, what is good about it and why is it highly talked about?
Well, for many Christians Good Friday is celebrated as the day Jesus suffered and took all our sins to the cross and was crucified. Jesus willingly suffered for the sins of humanity, he was righteous and died for us who are unrighteous. This was God's plan!! Although Jesus suffered and was crucified, he rose on the third day to enter his glory, to be seated 22 "at God's right hand- with all the angels, authorities and powers in submission to him". (1 Peter 3: 22) (NIVUK). Good Friday followed by Easter, the celebration of the day Jesus was raised from the dead paving a way for those who believed and are united to him by Faith. 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". (1 Peter 3: 18) (NIVUK).
The crucifixion of Christ was good, so why is His death 'Good Friday' and not 'Bad Friday'. The term Good Friday has been appropriately used to mark the completion of God's plan to save us from our Sins. Easter is truly a celebration of Jesus' resurrection, God raised Jesus from the dead. This shows that he broke the power of sin and death. We must first understand the suffering that Jesus had to go through to understand God's great and immense Love for us. God showed us that he loves us, he didn't tell us. The Bible says, 8 "God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were sinners". (Romans 5: 8) (NLT). This verse is powerful becasue it is saying that even before we knew we needed God in our lives, while we were still sinners, Jesus Christ died for us!
God made you to love you and we are alive because we were made to be loved by God! Jesus did not have to endure anything, Jesus understood that his suffering and pain was the only way our sins could be forgiven and restored to God, our heavenly Father.
The cross is where we see Jesus' suffering but received God's mercy and forgiveness. We received divine mercy, peace and forgiveness because Jesus rescued us willingly and took our punishment. On Good Friday, Jesus endured the cross but this led to his resurrection, which is our salvation. God's wrath against sin was poured our on Jesus so that forgiveness and salvation could be poured out onto his people.God needs us to pick up our cross and follow him, what this means is to follow Jesus, his examples, and submit ourselves completely to God even when it is so so difficult. The bible says, 24 "He himself bore our sins’ in his body on the cross so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; ‘by his wounds, you have been healed.’" (1 Peter 2: 24) (NIVUK).
So, this is why Good Friday is so good and sad.
Jesus had to die because he alone, the Son of God, was able to pay for our sins. He came from heaven to earth, He was God in the flesh, and he came to save us! His death proved thatJesus was who He claimed to be, the Saviour! He went through six trials, but at the end of it nothing was found, nothing to convict Jesus on, The thing they did convict him of was being the Son of God, which he was. It is because of this trial that Jesus was to be crucified. Jesus' trial happened because he was the Son of God. He allowed this to happen so that All would know exactly who He was, and have no doubt about it. Jesus, of course, knew of the trial, He knew, He allowed it to happen. It happened because it was a part of God's plan.
The bible says, 47 "For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world." (John 12: 47) (NIVUK).
Prayer:
Dear heavenly Father, Thank you for sending Christ Jesus, your Son, to earth, not to condemn it but to save it. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, I pray for courage, endurance and strength to follow you every single day, follow your word and examples that you have set for us. Thank you, God, for your mercy. Let us never forget the real meaning of Easter. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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