It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Romans 4:24-25
Today is Good Friday... the day to contemplate the sacrifice of Jesus for us... Jesus Who, as this passage reminds us, was delivered over for our sins. And it is the outcome of all of Christ’s death as the apostle Paul teaches us here that makes us as Christians look upon Jesus in a special way today. We consider His mocking, beating, humiliation, and death and we believe it to be to our benefit. We dare to call this Friday good.
It is good that we have a Savior Who willingly gave Himself for us. It is good that we have a God Who would deliver up His Son to the death that He died for us. It is good that our sins were born by Jesus on that cross. And it is good to know that through His death on our behalf, which was very real, our salvation in turn is very real. And it is good to know this is not the end of the story.
Today Christians will look upon Jesus as He bore our sins. We will reflect on His gift of love. We will mourn that a holy God must die for us. We will look at His cross, not in pity, but in thankful worship for His amazing grace. And we will hold on to that somber worship until we rejoice together on Resurrection Sunday!
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