Today is Good Friday and I cannot find what is good about it. Today is the day that I am forced to ponder, not just remember, my Jesus dying on the cross for me. Why? Why would He do that? I wouldn't have done it for Him. And as I think about Him beaten almost to death, nailed to a cross and hanging there while He was dying, tears spill over the rims of my eyes. Why? Why for me?
It's not because of anything I did right. It's not because I love God with all of my heart because I don't. I like to think that I do, but the truth is that I don't. I'm not sure that being the sinner I was born to be, even makes it possible to love God with my whole heart. Have you ever thought about that? Is He the absolute apple of your eye? Do you think about Him all day the way you thought about your 8th grade crush?
And if you think about how you would have done anything for that boy just to give you a second look, think about Jesus--dying just for us to give Him a second look. How can you know that and not long to be His?
Today is my saddest day of the year. "Good" Friday. It's the day that I killed the perfect man and all He wanted was my heart. Father, please forgive me for all of the sin in my life...the sin that nailed Your beloved Son to a cross...thank You for sending Him so that I could be redeemed.
I pray that you will not only remember today, but that you will ponder the meaning of it and know that He did it for you too--give Him a second look!
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