Someone said that it shouldn't be called “good” Friday because “good” is too neutral a term. The events of Good Friday are the ultimate paradox—at once atrocious and wonderful, scandalous and beautiful, the worst kind of hate and the best kind of love.
Every year we go through the motion, the ritual, and the re-enactment of the Cross and crucifixion. I wonder how much of it really affects me, changes me, and moves me forward and onward for Him. I wonder how much I truly understand the severity of my own actions that causes the suffering and the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. It’s easy to go through the motion – Lord, I thank you for the Cross, for dying for me, blah, blah, blah – and come out of the other side still back to square one; go on my jolly old way, do my own thing, and live my own life.
I don’t know about you, but I want more of life and I want to come into the place where Christ vicarious death means more than just an emotional rush where I shed some tears over but a truth that hits me real deep within that changes my perspective, that changes my way of life, and that changes how I value my life and my walk with the Lord. His death was no small matter – he didn't have too but he choose too, after all he is the Creator and all creation is through him and for his pleasure. Why has he got to suffer for his creation? He did it to show what true love is. He did it because he is love himself!
This weekend I want to make a difference. I want to stop being selfish, I want to stop being too occupied with what I can get out of my relationship with the Father. It’s time that I take a step back and have a check in my heart. I need to come to Jesus in a fresh new way because I had become jaded through the years. And sometimes because we think we know him when we don’t and that our knowing centers on what we know about him and about what he has done. That knowledge is good because it is the beginning of wisdom but still it is a starting point of truly getting to know him. We can read the bible, books and listen to sermons and think we understand him or know him but in reality we don’t. We can become so confident of our intimacy with the Lord. My experience is that the more I think I know him the more I realize that I don’t know him.
Take time for the Lord who gave his life to you unconditionally except to come to him in repentance!
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