RIP Jesus - Ressurection In Progress - Part 1
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Today is Good Friday. This is the day that we remember Jesus death by crucifixion. Here's one of the Biblical accounts:
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last. The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, “Surely this was a righteous man.” When all the people who had gathered to witness this sight saw what took place, they beat their breasts and went away. - Luke 23:44-48
It's weird how just those few short sentences try and explain an event that has echoed through mankind ever since. I've read the story a hundred times, I've seen The Passion, I've heard speakers talk about the cruelty of Jesus' death, but none of these ever seem to quite capture what really happened that day. I think the incredible sorrow of today's events 2000 years ago is a large part of why Easter is such an amazing celebration.
Have you ever been having a horrible day and somebody did something really nice for you? That really nice thing was even better because of how bad things had been going. Or how about the fact that is was 45 degrees outside this week and everybody was running around in t-shirts? If it was 45 degrees in August we'd be complaining about the weather, but because it's been so long since we've felt the warmth of the sun it makes the recent warm days that much nicer.
I think the same goes for Easter. It's an amazing day to celebrate the amazing acts of an amazing savior. But what really puts it into perspective is that today we remember an incredibly ugly thing that was done, something so awful that we can't even really imagine it... and that makes me excited for some Good News.