The Very Best Friday

I think that Good Friday should be renamed, "The Very Best Friday", because, when you consider it, it is like the very best Friday there could ever be. The resurrection is fantastic because, you know, it means that we all serve a living King, more powerful than any other king. But Friday...it's like, "the day everyone's sins were forgiven." 

Woah.

I mean, it kind of bothers me (a lot) that people are walking around without knowing that today--this day and everyday their sins have been forgiven. No need to continue living in sin: you are reborn. You're new. You're alive. And you're His. Actually, I think it should be more like this: You're new! You're ALIVE!!! And YOU. ARE. HIS!!!!!! It's the most exciting, fantastic, amazing truth that could ever be stored in our hearts. And what's appalling is that it's just that: the truth.

It's time for another, "Woah." Or more like, "Wow." Or perhaps it's best proclaimed in the all encompassing exclamation of, "Hallelujah! Hosanna, Hosanna in the Highest!"

May the implication of His words, "It is finished" sink into the very marrow of our bones and thrill our hearts as we look to Sunday--His resurrection. The best thing is that in it we may glimpse our very own resurrection because we have also died to sin.

How do you picture Jesus going up to Heaven? Lots of blue sky, a big cloud, His disciples gazing upward in wonder. Perhaps they had fallen to their faces and were worshiping Him--some of them lifting their hands and catching a final glimpse of Him on earth.

How do you picture His return? Trumpet sound, choirs of angels, every boy, girl, man, woman, dog, giraffe, and fish in complete awe as the mountains bow down and we lift up our hands and are "caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air". How sweet those words are. How encouraging and how exciting they are.

"For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we shall certainly be united with Him in a resurrection like His. We know that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again, death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive in God in Christ Jesus. "
                                                                                                    Romans 6:5-11

A great song that really captures the excitement of the coming Day.

Grace and peace in Christ our Lord--crucified on this day for our sins. We are forever washed and forever set free--may you live out your days filled with His wonder.

~Maryah