16/04/2022
From the archives, ‘A Meditation for Good Friday’. I won’t try and summarize, but a few extracts I am contemplating this Good Friday…
“Now if the lonely figure on the Cross were merely a great and good man, martyred for his beliefs, then that is regrettable, but hardly of any significance to us today. But if it was God who was murdered, if it was God who willingly allowed the forces of evil to close in upon Him and kill Him, then we are in the presence of something which, though it happened in time, is of eternal significance. We are looking at something utterly foreign and repugnant to any other religion. We are seeing God allowing Himself, not only to be personally involved in the folly, sin and downright evil of the human situation, but accepting death at the hands of His own creatures…
I believe we must use every skill of communication, every device of writer, artist, poet and dramatist to break the insulation of ignorance and let men see who it is who died upon the Cross...
One of the glories of the Cross lies in its power to release men from this sense of guilt, in its power to reconcile them to the true and living God…”
🔥 Blessings on you this Easter. Because of HIM God has given each of us an escape from the guilt that can weigh us down and destroy us! Thank you Jesus!
