Good Friday? (Pack Of 25)

GOOD FRIDAY? Who came up with the idea of calling the Friday before Easter ?good?? When we think through the last weeks of Jesus? life and ministry, the focus draws us to the events of Friday, the day of his death (the Bible in John 18-19). Beginning with Thursday evening we see Jesus in the agony of prayer in the garden, followed by his betrayal with a kiss by his supposed friend, Judas?then having all His disciples forsake him and flee to save their own skins. We see him going through the mockery of those illegal trials during the night, the unimaginable pain of the flogging, the humiliation at the hands of rough soldiers who laugh and mock him unmercifully. We witness the horrors of the crucifixion, with its hours-long untold brutality and humiliation, leading up to that horrific moment when Jesus cries, ?My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?? There is no way we can fully capture the horror of that fateful Friday.And we call that day??Good Friday??That designation would be a terrible misnomer but for one word. That word was uttered at the very climax of those horrendous events of that day. It wasn?t a pitiful, weak, last dying gasp. It was, with all the strength that the dying God-Man could muster, a rousing shout of triumph. As Max Lucado has said, had his hands not been nailed down he would have shot a fist skyward in a gesture of victory with the exclamation of that one w

Eggert, Ron