Good Friday
I have never stopped to really meditate on why we call it Good Friday. I have been sitting on my balcony for the past couple of hours just praying and reading and spending time with God. Listening to worship music and letting Him love on me. Then as I pause and look at the sky and let God love on me, He says this is always a “Good Friday.” This is the day that I had the courage to take on the death of the world physically and spiritually. The horrific events that occurred on our Savior where indeed intense and more than we will ever know. That our God chose to lose His life for all of us, not only to save us from our own sins, but because He loved us. This day is a day of rejoicing and humility. We have the freedom to choose how we want to live and many of our family and friends have not chosen to follow Him. They simply choose to believe or not believe there is a God. Our Papa, knowing this still followed through with His assignment. I can only think of the amount of times I have denied Christ like Peter when I have ran away from standing up for him. Simply because I didn’t feel confident enough to stand before a crowd and speak. There was our Savior on His knees praying for His Father to lift the burden He was about to carry because of the infinite hell He was about to pay. For that single moment in History, Jesus becomes the most evil man to ever live. He was nailed upon a cross and spiritually received ALL of our sins into Him and then Had God, His Father, reject Him. It is in that sacrifice that we can walk freely and have the opportunity, even on our death bed, to receive His gift to us. Good Friday is a day to simply stay in silence and let God resonate in your very being. It is because on this day, death was defeated forever. There is no doubt there is a one true God and He is also a mighty God, mighty enough to humble himself into human form and take on all the temptations, sins, pains and brokenness of our World. Everyone will one day experience that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of All. I pray that Jesus will place His burdens on you to pray for those who do not know him. Make your life about Urgency and I plan on doing the same. Growing up I lived in fear of many things because Satan had his hand on my life, but now I choose to release everything into Jesus’ more than willing scarred hands and will not be afraid. I want to leave you on this Good Friday with this verse Romans 1:16: ” I will not be ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: First for the Jew, then for the Gentile.” Amen and Amen
