Today is Good Friday and although it SHOULD be a holiday, it’s not. But I have ministerial responsibilities whether it’s a holiday and a day off or a work day. And as is usually the case when I get covered up, my camper family gets left out.
Such a sad state of affairs.
But I’m on my way over to church for a special Good Friday service.
What a misnomer that is…Good Friday. The day that our Lord Jesus was put on trial. Pilate found no evidence of a crime. Offered to set Him free and His own people insisted on his death.
Pilate even offered to kill a real murderer in His place and the crowd insisted they let the killer go free!
Pilate then gave Him 40 lashes and still they weren’t satisfied. The skin and muscles were pealed back to His bones!
They gave Him a crown of thorns, made Him carry His own cross, spit on Him, nailed Him to the cross, gave Him vinegar to drink, stabbed Him in the side, so many other horrible things!
And then, the worst yet. His own Father, Our God, abandoned Him. Took His presence from Him. For three hours, the sun went dark, and Jesus hung alone on that cross and suffered for all the sins of all the world – that ever HAD been committed and that ever WOULD be committed.
He then exclaimed, “It is finished.” and He died.
Good Friday?
No, I don’t think so. I think, because of the horror that Jesus suffered for me and for all of you…
I think it’s an amazing Friday.
See you on Monday my dear, dear family.
Dragon Laffs 
Not a good Friday for Him, but for us. Without those 39 lashes, suffering, and laying in the grave separated from the Father, we would have no access to forgiveness.
He knew by this time people would abandon the faith. Partially due to apathy, partially due to outside influence, and largely due to corruption of the Priests. We needed Christ to step in so we had a way to Him individually. Each one responsible to respond to hear or ignore His voice on his own. We still have corrupt preachers and they will answer to God for leading people astray, but those people still have access to His word and to other preachers, so they carry their own guilt.
Not good for Jesus, but other than Resurrection Sunday, it couldnt be better for us.