Happy Good Friday, what’s good about today you may ask? Most of the time when we say it’s a good friday, we are happy to be finished with a hard week at work, anticipating socializing with friends, or we are reminiscing old times. However, today throughout the world people are celebrating “Good Friday”, but on this day, a man,  was mocked and unjustly crucified. A week prior he was lauded by hundreds, but all those people turned on him. He was betrayed by one of his closest friends and denied by another. His mother was forced to watch him die on a old rugged cross. This man did not even have his own tomb, and was placed in a borrowed tomb. He bore a violent death, unjustly.

We can all think of people that have died unjustly or violently. Acts of violence are never acceptable, but they touch our heart and souls when innocent people are the victim. Around the world people are greifing for love ones that have been killed, by stray bullets, terror attacks, police etc. It’s hard to reconcile why these events happen. They simply make no sense. But in the aforementioned case, the man who was crucifed on the Cross died for a specific reason. And that reason is us, you and I.

As we reflect on today we are not celebrating the act of murder, but we are more appreciative that Jesus Christ chose to sacrifice himself for the remission of our sins. It was a selfless act that will never loose power. It was and is a good friday, becuase of this act, we are free and have access to grace and forgiveness. We have a blessed assurance that when we pray, that we are praying to a savior that understand the struggles of this world.

So its a Good Friday, because on this Friday all of our debts were paid, and we are free to live abundantly in Christ.