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2000 years ago, humanity failed. Representatives of the world's most powerful nations folded into popular pressures and executed religious teachers without taking responsibility. The man's own people had turned him on. Some of his closest disciples abandoned him or denied him. An angry crowd denounced him and convicted him. The soldier laughed at him, beat him, and defeated him.
This teacher was crucified and endured one of the most unbearable executions imaginable. However, the murdered man never returned the rage of those around him. Instead, he did as usual. He overlooked all the pain, misery and anger that was directed at him, and offered forgiveness and grace.
That day, an innocent man died in a horrifying way. Matthew's Christian Gospels state that nature itself responds to suffering, and “At that moment, the curtains of the temple were torn apart from top to bottom.
Faced with all the evils that nature and the supernatural realm can convened, the carpenter on the cross has overcome. (Fox News Digital)
A male Christian respects him as a child of God, part of the Trinity himself.
Look on Good Friday
Christian tradition calls this event “Good Friday.” What exactly does it seem good about that Friday?
Christians believe that Jesus' story is the story of all powerful Gods who humble themselves to become enveloped in his fallen creation. He did so by being born to two poor teenagers. He arrives at the stable for the animals. His arrival was announced to some simple shepherds, not to kings, queens, or religious authorities.
He obscured most of his life. It is a blue-collar expert dedicated to studying crafts, loving others, and studying the Bible. It lasted only three years when he turned to ministry. He never wrote a book. He spent most of his time with wealthy and powerful people, and instead chose a company of people struggling with illness, hunger and thirst.
In an era of authentic patriarchy and discrimination, he chose women, exiles, prostitutes, sick people and comfort. The apostles he chose were not the strongest, but the weakest. Many were illiterate. But their weaknesses were the key. God has a sense of humor. He does not need strength or strength, nor does he need faith alone.
Easter reminds us that the darkness of Good Friday always gives us hope
The Jews were hoping for a messiah with military authority. But Jesus never raised an army or wielded weapons. When one of his followers took his arm and cut his ear from the soldier, Jesus scolded the follower and healed the wounded man. Then all this powerful God-covered flesh lost the deaths of criminals outside the city around the empire in front of several followers and a tormenting crowds.
Everything about Jesus was the opposite of what Jesus was supposed to be. So isn't it perfect for us to think of a single dark arc arc day that humanity has experienced in the past “good”?
Etymologically, “good” on Good Friday may have originally meant “God” or perhaps “holy”, but even those terms represent the fundamental rebirth of the day. Even those who deny Jesus' divinity have admitted that his execution is brutal and unjust. But just as his early followers transformed one of the most horrifying symbols of violence in history, the Roman cross – into a sign of faithfulness and redness, we chose not to fail on Friday, but to see that Friday for its bounty.
What is Good Friday and why is it important?
Humanity was the worst. But the Almighty God of the Universe was His best. He was suffering for us as a sign and sacrifice. He has accepted a sin that we ourselves, ourselves, could not erase. He endures the pain and humiliation that we cannot fully know that we will reach across the cracks of the universe, and reminds us that there is nothing that can be done so badly that it cannot be redeemed. And three days after his execution, he rose again.
And that's why Good Friday was good and why. Because in our greatest despair, there is a reason to believe. At our darkest times there is light. Faced with all the evils that nature and the supernatural realm can convened, the carpenter on the cross has overcome.
God's message to us is not that life is perfect. And it's far from there. The night is dark and full of fear. There are evil in this world and enemies wandering like lions. We will suffer. But our suffering is important. Our sadness is important. Our souls matter.
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As we enter this holy weekend there is a lot to fear. Our world is still extremely incomplete. There is something filled with evil, bent into destruction. Our bodies are declining despite our best efforts in longevity and wellness. A great nation will fall. Our victory is temporary.
But our suffering is also temporary. Our disorders do not last. Evil won't win. Darkness will not extinguish the light. And we are the perfect creator of the universe who is with us, facing evil greater than us, and we are committed to facing us and our demons every day.
The great Christian pastor once spoke to us about living together in peace and harmony. He called for a time when “justice tumbles down like water and righteousness like a powerful stream.” That minister was right, so Good Friday is good.
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We may not see it in our lives. We may experience generations of darkness and despair. But those generations are steam. Good Friday is a good thing. Because it was the day when all expectations and standards were turned over and humanity was redeemed forever.
And the eternal paradonic faith of Christianity believes that we can now see what it truly offered: the day of its death for the eternal life.
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