Today is Good Friday, the day Christian honor the Death of Jesus Christ. Thus t was a day supposed to be a sad, sorrowful. A friend of mine told me that instead of calling this day Good Friday, it should have been called Bad Friday. I disagree with that. You may ask me why? The answer lies in the answer to the topic of this blog.
No doubt, Good Friday is a day where Jesus was crucified. He has to suffer that dreadful death for no cause of His own. Those who condemn Him to death were non other than fellow Jews who are supposed to be believers. The only person deserving the death that Jesus was penalized, were the worst Criminal. Yet, He (Jesus) has to suffer for NO CAUSE of His own.
Why do I agree with the saying of this day as Good Friday? For me, a Christian, I believe that God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to this world because He loved me so much. Even when I am a sinner, yet He chooses to come and die for me (John 3:16). It was His love for a sinner like me that makes Jesus come and suffer to even face death for all the sins I did.
The Bible said “No one is righteous”, so am I. The Bible also said “The wages of sin is Death”. Thus, I am supposed to face death. Well when God say death, He doesn’t mean the death of my body. By death God means eternal death in Hell. But, when God love me so much that He did not want me to perish, that He sent His Son Jesus Christ to die in my place.
With Jesus taking my place, I became free and righteous, not by my ability but by His Grace.
Good Friday is, was, and always will be a Good Day for all sinners willing to accept the Lord Jesus Christ to take their place and die for them.
Good Friday for me means “The Love of God that Leads to Salvation of Sinners”.
This article was written in 2009 and published at http://www.fdiengdoh.co.cc/.