"Good" Friday?

It is 12 a.m. on Saturday. So although it is not TECHNICALLY Good Friday any more, this blog is going to address today as Good Friday. Humor me.


You've asked the question, and so have I:
"Why is it called GOOD FRIDAY?"


As many of you know, Good Friday is the day that Christ was crucified. Not to be confused with the slightly-more-fitting-name Black Friday, which is the day that everything in Walmart is like 89% off and people stampede through the store for a television that will become obsolete in three years. 


It begs the question, what is so GOOD about the day that Jesus was crucified?

• Christ being crucified means that our price has been paid. 
• Christ being crucified means that in the cross the wrath of God was absorbed so that we could be seen as blameless before him.
• Christ being crucified means that God loved us before we ever even considered loving him back. He knew that we would be a mess; He knew that we would mess up constantly, fall short, and rebel against Him. But He loved us even then. This gives us hope and trust in our maker.

I hope you guys enjoyed Good Friday. And even if you didn't, I hope this gives you a good Saturday to prepare your heart for Easter. 

-Adrian

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Philipians 2:5-11

⁵ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,⁶ who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷ but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ⁸ And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,even death on a cross. ⁹Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, ¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.