Good Friday

What is so GOOD about GOOD Friday? Is it good because it is the best day to finish getting ready for the Easter Bunny to come? Is it good because of all the great candy that is available (God Bless this kind)? Is it good because lots of people get the day off? Is it good because we get to look forward to good eatin' on Sunday? What is so good about Good Friday?

Is it good because God sent His Son into the world? Is it good because He lived a perfect life? Is it good because He was falsely accused of crimes He did not commit? Is it good because He was arrested? Is it good that He was chosen over a murderer to be condemned? Is it good that He was sentenced to death? Is it good that He was given over to be crucified? Is it good that He was scourged over and over and over and over and over and over and over again with whips containing broken glass, bone, and metal that ripped apart the flesh of His back with each lash? Is it good that they placed upon Him a robe and mocked Him? Is it good that they pressed into His scalp a crown made with thorns, piercing through His flesh causing great agony? Is it good that they beat Him in the face with a scepter repeatedly making Him unrecognizable just to make fun of Him? Is it good that they ripped off the robe they had placed on Him reexposing the wounds on His back? Is it good that they made Him carry His own cross outside of the city and up a mountain to be used for His own torment? Is it good that they nailed into His wrists and feet long nails to suspend Him above the ground on this so called cross? Is it good that He hung there hours grasping for life in utter agony from physical pain? Is it good that God the Father turned His back on Him as He bore upon His sinless Self the guilt, the sin, the iniquity, the shame, the punishment, the death that was rightfully due to all of mankind? Is it good that He absorbed the full wrath and justice of a Holy God due to all humans that ever would exist just so they would not have to?

YES, YES, YES!! It is not only good but it is GREAT!! It is the greatest feat of all history, that the God of all creation, the only God, would put on flesh, and even though He knew NO sin, BECAME sin FOR US, in order that WE could become the RIGHTEOUS OF GOD (2 Corinthians 5:21)!

It is indeed a GOOD FRIDAY, but it was an even GREATER SUNDAY!