These tulips popping up from the rocks in a friend's garden remind me of Jesus coming out of the tomb.
The stone was rolled away. He was raised from death to life.
One of our grandsons asked me the other day, "Why is it called 'Good Friday' when they did a bad thing to Jesus that day? I shared it is good for us, because Jesus willingly took the punishment for all of our sins and then conquered death by being raised from the dead on Easter.
"If we say we have not sinned, we make God a liar, and his message isn't in our hearts."
1 John 1:10
I like the way this article explains Good Friday.
"For Christians, Good Friday is a crucial day of the year because it celebrates what we believe to be the most pivotal day in the history of the world. On Good Friday, Jesus willingly suffered and died by crucifixion as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 1:10).
D.A. Carson wrote, 'It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will—and it was his love for sinners like me.' It is a good day because he traded places for you and for me. It is a good day because it was the day he conquered sin and death so that we will never be apart from God on this side of heaven or the other.
If you had asked his friends, family, and disciples on the day he died, they wouldn’t have said it was a good day when all hope seemed lost; evil and death seemed to have triumphed, but their responses would’ve been very different three days later because the forces of evil had been defeated, death had been destroyed, and from that point on, we all have a way to be free of sin and death." Heather Riggleman
The Song
"At the Cross" Chris Tomlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zev5tHjCB_s
