Whats so good about Good Friday?

Everyone looks forward to Friday week after week right? It tends to be the favored day for sure. Why? Maybe the fact that the weekend follows, and two days off work is just plain...good. Maybe for many its a chance to gather with friends, go to the movies, go out to eat, and simply enjoy the goodness of life. This Friday tends to be a bit different, and yet many people will only see so far as the Easter goodies and family gatherings. In a culture flooded with every color and variety of chocolate, bunnies, and eggs, it is difficult to allow the true goodness of Good Friday to really sink in.

I must admit I am not a theologian, and I am not for certain that Jesus the Messiah actually died on Friday, but nonetheless He died. The day is not of greatest importance, but the reality and truth of His death, burial, and resurrection. This is good news friends. Good Friday is simply a reminder that true goodness only comes from Christ, true life and joy are only found in partaking of His death and resurrection. We must allow this to sink in deeply, penetrate every part of our heart and mind and soul. There would have been no weekend to look forward to had Christ not died and risen from the dead. We would have been doomed and damned to eternal destruction and separation. 

So celebrate loudly, yes freely, and fully. 

I leave you today with Isaiah 53:3-7,

"He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned-every one-to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth."