I think today is a very important day to remain humble and think about the pain Jesus took away from us by dying on the cross. The pain He suffered. The pain we would've suffered if it weren't for Him. Today is not a day of celebration. But it is a day of humility and sovereignty. It's a day to turn to God. I have always loved Good Friday in the church and I am very excited to go to church tonight. God always has worked in mysterious ways in me at the Good Friday service. Today was a day of sadness for Jesus' followers. He was dead and they didn't know what to do.
Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, and Salome. In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there. (Mark 15:40, 41 NIV). These women and many others had to watch Jesus be crucified. This is a very humbling thing to literally see your sin taken away from you but Jesus is still living through that death today taking the sin of the world away. He hasn't stopped working.
Today is a day of healing, we don't have to feel the pain anymore! I think this should be a tremendous day of giving thanks and praise to God and just actually being on our knees. It's a time to reflect and to strain towards the prize of Christ at the end. It is a day to set our perspective to an eternal perspective and not right now or my flesh. It is a child like faith but living it out like Jesus did. This isn't some random thing a bunch of people made up thousands of years ago. It happened. Jesus died and He did it for us. God has a deep love for us and that can be filled in our hearts.
who will mock him and spit on him, flog him and kill him. Three days later he will rise.” (Mark 10:34 NIV).
because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.” (Mark 9:31 NIV).
He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. (Mark 8:31 NIV).
“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 NIV).
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. (Isaiah 53:5 NIV).
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! (Romans 5:6-10 NIV).
Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). (John 19:17 NIV). Jesus carried His own cross which had the weight of the world on it.
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. (John 19:30-32 NIV)
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