Growing up as a kid I often heard about Good Friday but I never knew what it was, except for the Friday before Easter. I wondered what was so good about Good Friday. Why did they call it Good Friday anyway?
Time passes and I have learned more and I am beginning to understand what is so good about this day of the year.
Without this day of the year there would be no resurrection day. SKH gave the idea that it is much more glorious to have a resurrection than to never have dies in the first place- we know this first hand on 2 counts in our family with Grant's being dead for 40 minutes and then being resurrected and knowing the power of Christ's resurrection in our own lives.
This is an interesting poem below but it tells well the meaning of Good Friday and is a good reminder that without this day and the following resurrection we Christians would have no hope.
Time passes and I have learned more and I am beginning to understand what is so good about this day of the year.
Without this day of the year there would be no resurrection day. SKH gave the idea that it is much more glorious to have a resurrection than to never have dies in the first place- we know this first hand on 2 counts in our family with Grant's being dead for 40 minutes and then being resurrected and knowing the power of Christ's resurrection in our own lives.
This is an interesting poem below but it tells well the meaning of Good Friday and is a good reminder that without this day and the following resurrection we Christians would have no hope.
Beautiful, Scandalous Night
Go on up to the mountain of mercy
To the crimson perpetual tide
Kneel down on the shore
Be thirsty no more
Go under and be purified
To the crimson perpetual tide
Kneel down on the shore
Be thirsty no more
Go under and be purified
Follow Christ to the holy mountain
Sinner sorry and wrecked by the fall
Cleanse your heart and your soul
In the fountain that flowed
For you and for me and for all
Sinner sorry and wrecked by the fall
Cleanse your heart and your soul
In the fountain that flowed
For you and for me and for all
At the wonderful, tragic, mysterious tree
On that beautiful, scandalous night you and me
Were atoned by His blood and forever washed white
On that beautiful, scandalous night
On that beautiful, scandalous night you and me
Were atoned by His blood and forever washed white
On that beautiful, scandalous night
On the hillside, you will be delivered
At the foot of the cross justified
And your spirit restored
By the river that poured
From our blessed Savior's side
And your spirit restored
By the river that poured
From our blessed Savior's side
Go on up to the mountain of mercy
To the crimson perpetual tide
Kneel down on the shore
Be thirsty no more
Go under and be purified
To the crimson perpetual tide
Kneel down on the shore
Be thirsty no more
Go under and be purified
Hope- we have hope, something that many of our friends only long to have and look for in so many places that don't deliver. Good Friday is the saddest, most tragic day in the history of man and yet it has to be the most glorious day, when He took away our sins and offers new life- resurrection life- to all who will come to this terrible and beautiful instrument of death we call a cross.
I am attaching a link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ_zoTufzBY so you can listen to the above song.I hope you are encouraged or perplexed at the words- if perplexed I'd love to talk to you. If encouraged, tell someone about why you are encouraged.
Death brings life- die to live. It wasn't easy for Jesus so it certainly won't be easy for us. But easy things have little value and hard things often have the greatest value in the end.
Have a glorious Resurrection day on Sunday.
