It’s Friday but Sunday’s Coming
The terrible reality of sin made the baddest of Fridays ‘good’ and reminds us that yes, it’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming!
Today is ‘good’ Friday, the day that marks the most momentous millisecond in history, the moment when Jesus died on the cross. At first glance, ‘good’ seems to be the most insanely inaccurate expression for the day that the Son of God, the Savior of all, was beaten, forsaken, tortured, crucified, died, and was buried.
However, history’s most horrible moment, simultaneously was swallowed up, transformed, and redefined, by the greatest act of love that the world had ever, and will ever know. Our most amazing and awesome God, the one who set the galaxies in motion, and created love, time, space, and eternity, physics, chemistry, and biology, became the sacrifice for your sins and mine.
To be certain, the consequences of sin are evident by a simple sampling of daily news and also in each of our lives. Sin is the horrendous reality that destroys everything it comes in contact with. Sin not only separates us from God, but also from each other. But thankfully, the unthinkable happened, and sin and even death were defeated.
I have often pondered that of all the systems of philosophy, of all the worldviews, of all the religions of the world, of all the most brilliant efforts of scientific research, or eloquently written prose, songs, or any artistic expression, that Christianity has at its core, the greatest definition of love.
Yet how can someone die, and yet at the same time defeat death, and live? And how can the Redeemer of all humanity undergo betrayal, beatings, and brutality, yet provide redemption for a selfish sinner like me?
Dear brother or sister in Christ, or friend along life’s journey, join me in a practice that I have maintained for many years since my earliest days of coming to faith. During Holy Week, and especially on Good Friday, I read the last few chapters of each of the four gospels. I do this to recall how Jesus suffered and died to pay the price for my sins to secure my eternal salvation.
I hope you will find time today to ‘prepare’ for the glorious light of Easter to be revealed this Sunday. As we anticipate the joyful celebration of our risen Savior, this coming resurrection Sunday, let us first embrace the defining details of the darkest of days, reflecting on what our Savior endured, noting sadly yes, it is Friday, but Sunday’s coming.
I hope you have a blessed and wonderful day, and super start to the weekend, as you ponder along with me, that the terrible reality of sin that made the baddest of Fridays, ‘good’, and reminds us that yes, it’s Friday, but Sunday’s coming!