Today, Good Friday 2013, the WORD (see http://usccb.org/bible/readings/032913.cfm) reminds me that God can turn something bad into something good.
Today, we commemorate Christ’s death. It’s supposed to be sad, but we call it good Friday. Why? Because what the devil has intended for evil, God has turned into something good.
We see Christ’s passion in the gospel. And as we see in the second reading, Jesus is like us in every way, except sin. He was tested, tempted, and had emotions too. That’s why we can imagine how he felt during that time. He felt every fear as he knew the time was nearing. He felt every pain as he was being scourged, whipped, crowned with thorns and nailed to the cross. He felt sadness as he was being mocked and laughed at, and when Peter denied him three times. However, most important is he felt love – for God and submitting to his will, and love for us.
Good news for good Friday! We are saved because Christ died for us!
The first reading reminds us of this. “It was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured…by his stripes, we are healed.” Christ loves us so much that human as he is, he chose to lay his life for us. He chose us over himself. He chose to submit to God’s will and save us.
This may be a sad day, commemorating Jesus’ death, but God’s power turns this sad, bad day into something good.
Father God,
Thank you for today. Thank you for reminding me how much you love me. Jesus, Thank you for dying for me. It must have been so painful, so sad, so depressing and so lonely to bear all our sins on your shoulder. Yet you submitted to God’s will because you love me. Thank you for that. Lord, thank you for your love and your power that turns something evil, something bad, into something good. I pray that I would always be thankful and always be ready to die of myself, like Jesus, and submit to your great and perfect plan. Amen.
Blessed day!
In Christ,
-g-
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