What’s So Good About Good Friday?

It took me years after having a real “let’s be friends, I believe in you” relationship with Christ before I understood Good Friday. I’m sad to see most people either not understand or even care why such a day exists. Lord help us that it would always mean more than part of Spring break.

I was perplexed by the thought that Good Friday was good. What was so good about Jesus dying on the cross? After watching Passion of the Christ I was even more disturbed. He endured so many violent gruesome things for no good reason. I couldn’t get over it.

I asked Him about it in prayer and as only He can, He whispered the answer that satisfied my confused heart.

Good Friday is named as it is not because anyone wants to attribute violence and death with good but because without Friday, there would not be Sunday. He didn’t deserve any of it, not even a trillionth of a second’s worth. But out of love, a deep, unmeasurable love for you, me, everyone, He went there. He took it. He endured it all to death, for our good.

Because we fall short. On our best day we’re still coming up empty on our own. We can do good things for every second of the rest of our lives and it still won’t equal what Jesus did, who He is, and what He feels for you. None of those things are good, as hard as we try.

Good Friday is a reminder of the amazing Savior He longs for you to know. The nail marks are there, but He is no longer bound. To have a resurrection, you need to have a death. We never could fit the bill and Jesus knew that even in the manger. Nothing that happened to Him that Good Friday was personally good for Him. It was life saving for us. We just need to choose not only to see Good Friday that way, we need to choose to know Him on a personal level by acknowledging Him as a sinless Savior. I made that choice in 1992.

I understand Good Friday so much better now and I love how someone defined how Christians should see it: a “humble celebration.” Because for all the not so good things Jesus bore that Good Friday.

Resurrection Sunday for those that know Him is really, really great.

The video hopefully below is about 6 minutes long but I thought well done. Parents please watch this first before deciding if your child should watch. Although there is not gore per se, there are heavy themes. If the embed doesn’t work, the link is here.

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