Good Friday

Good Friday is one of those names that has a double meaning.  It is good because Jesus Christ would die and give mankind eternal life.  It is bad because someone had to die because of our sin.  Jesus Christ was God`s solution to this gap that exists between us and God.  This gap was created because we chose to rebel against God`s simple instructions.  This problem stills exists today.  God makes it very simple.  Believe and repent.  We complicated it by adding our perspectives to it.  We try to better ourselves, explain away the problem or just ignore it.  Sin does not go away, it does not take a holiday and it will not be satisfied until it completely destroys you.  Sin always takes you places where you think you would ever go, makes you do things you never thought you would do and become the kind of person you never thought you would be.  In the last year our daughter presented us with a lovely grand daughter.  I cannot imagine her anything but being a fine Christian citizen.  When we see babies and little children we could never seen them as pushers, thieves, rapists, drug addicts and murderers.  Yet somehow it happens.  What went wrong?  Sin.  Sin destroyed them from the inside out and they became what they currently are.  The powerful thing is that they do not have to stay that way.  Jesus Christ came to set people free from sin and recreate them for the glory of God.  All the sins, hurts and lifestyle of the past can be in one moment forgiven and an individual can start fresh and new.  I love redemption for that.  We can stop the madness and start again.  Good Friday and Easter are all about that.  So today enjoy every part of this weekend but remember the reason for the season is Jesus not the Easter Bunny.