Good Friday
Today is Good Friday, the day we commemorate Jesus’s death on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins. As 2 Corinthians 5:21 states, “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (NAU).
It is our sin, my sin, your sin, that put Jesus on that cross. Let that sink in: my sin caused Jesus to be crucified. Each one of us is guilty. As the Scriptures tell us, all have sinned, all have fallen short, none of us are righteous. Only one who was sinless, as Jesus was, could intercede for us, could bridge the gap that existed, a gap caused by our sin, between us and God.
Nothing you or I do can ever bridge that gap. Our own works cannot save us, as again, all of us have sinned. As a result, we do not meet God’s standard of sinless perfection. As Ezekiel 18: 4 states, the person who sins will die. Indeed, all of us will physically die. But through Christ, through Jesus’s death on the cross, and his resurrection that we will celebrate on Sunday, we do not have to die eternally, we can live through placing our faith in him by what he did upon the cross. Christ paid the penalty for our sins that we could not pay. That is why today is good.
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