Its a bright sunny morning this Good Friday of 2019 in Geneva Switzerland. Growing up in the tropics with only two seasons and then living in the land of four seasons makes me appreciate the presence of the sun in more ways than i could have imagined existed.
Our precious daughter trots about the house handling her toddler business like a champion while my darling husband is busy with some house chores..bulaya life is real without help.. The piano version of the old rugged cross provides the backdrop to my Easter reflections.
Good Friday has always been reflectively intense as i meditate and think on the suffering and pain Christ went through on that cross over 2000 years ago. The intensity of the mixed emotions of joy and sadness; sadness carrying more weight because of the reality of SIN. Rejoicing over His death always lurked in the background of His death yet I know that His death was the only way to defeat SIN.
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
(2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT)
However there is a shift this Good Friday! Hallelujah! Joy makes its way to the forefront and sadness lurks in the background as i reflect on the greatest blow to the devil; SIN defeated once and for all. I look for the sadness but i find joy and gratitude. I am thankful that Christ chose to die on that old rugged cross.
I am grateful that death made the way for salvation. Life without Christ was not life; simply an elusion of it. Once i lived in the darkness of this world but His death made a way for me into His wonderful light.
Christ’s death on the cross gives me opportunity to choose life; to choose HIM. To accept the gift of salvation in Him. My decision to choose Life in Him has changed the trajectory of every other decision; who i married, the kind of children we would raise, where we would live, the work we would spend our lives doing.. the list goes on and on. My husband and daughter are all part and parcel of the gift of salvation.
See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are! (John 3:1 NLT)
I think on how overwhelmingly kind God has been to us; the love the Father has lavished on us His children in Christ ; that we get to call ABBA Father, our position and belonging to His family firmly secured and sealed on Good Friday !
The tide shifts from sadness to joy; great joy in what God accomplished on that old rugged Cross. Thank you Lord.
I pray and hope that sharing my reflections inspires your own reflections this Easter. Think on the meaning of this great gift in Christ’s death on the journey of salvation and make that life giving decision of accepting Christ as Lord.
Happy Easter friends.