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Good Friday

I am sitting here at my dining room table looking out at the rain and reflecting on all today means for us. More than Christmas or Easter Sunday, this is the day we reflect on the death of Our Savior. This is the day we reflect on what has been accomplished so that we could have salvation. Our precious Lord and Savior came to this earth to die for you and for me. He came to die. In His death, we have life. In His death, He took all of our sin on His shoulders and became the perfect sacrifice. Jesus felt forsaken, alone, confused, desperate for any other plan that may be able to work. Even in the midst of all those emotions, His love for us prevailed. He endured the scorn and the shame and being forsaken by His Father for our sakes.

At church last Sunday, Bill (one of our pastors) was saying that Jesus is more willing to die for us than we are willing to accept his offering. We do not want the deliverance He offers and we enlist Him in our own plans to accomplish what we may be wanting. I pray this is not true of us today? Would we just bask in the glory of his cross today? Would we think on His death and His sacrifice? One of my favorite verses in all Scripture is Romans 5:6-9:

"For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person- though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die-- but, God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God."

Remember that Christ died for us in the midst of our dirty, rotten sin. He did not die for the righteous, but sinners. He did not come to save the healthy, but the sick. We do not have to be perfect to come to Jesus, He came for us in the midst of our imperfection.

Christ loves you. Remember that this Good Friday. All He did was for you and for me. He died so that we could live and be saved. Jesus is yearning for us to come to him, draw near to him and live in Him.

My challenge today for myself and for each of you is to think about our sin and weakness. Christ came to save us from God's wrath and also to save us from our own selves. Jesus has died to give you life. Won't you worship and draw near to Him today?

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