Good Friday

 

Why did Jesus have to suffer?

Why did Jesus have to be handed over to the chief priests and scribes

and be condemned to death, scourged and crucified?

Why didn’t He just snap His fingers and make sin go away?

And make everything go back the way it was,

In the Garden of Eden when everything was good?

He was God after all, and God can do anything!

Why not take the easy route

Instead of the cross?

Isn’t that what most of us would do?

Because it wouldn’t work.

Oh it might for maybe a day or a month or a year.

But eventually Cain would kill his brother Abel once more;

and it would start all over again.

Brother against brother;

This is the way of the human heart,

Once it has been wounded by sin.

The Cross is the visible sign of our sins;

What we have done and of what we are capable of doing.

As individuals and as a race.

There is no whitewashing or ignoring it.

No turning away.

Sin is real!

And it is legion!

With many different names.

From Pride; hatred; anger; greed and gluttony;

To jealousy, gossip and lust.

These reside in every human heart in one form or another;

Great or small.

And then there is racism, sexism, poverty, war; genocide and injustice

that resides in the heart of the human race.

And there is no one individual or political party or country or philosophy

that can overcome it, heal it or forgive it.

Only God!

Who through His Son’s death on the cross;

Brings about the forgiveness of sins

of our personal sins and those of the world,

This is the mystery of the cross.

That We can only be healed

Not by a snap of His fingers,

But by His wounds!

God Bless