Friday is always good and it is even better when it is Good Friday as it spells long weekend! This is a Holiday without fail, years after years will ensure you a weekend longer than the norm. This long weekend came at a cost. A cost out of love. A self sacrificial love beyond human capacity. A love story of God’s love for us at the cost of His own son.
The movie, “The Passion of Christ” by Mel Gibson, perhaps has given us the closest glimpse in the movie industry into 2000 years ago on how Jesus had to suffer for us all. However, even the picture which Gibson tried to portray is unable to draw us any closer to the truth of that very day as it is written:
“So His visage was marred more than any man”. Isaiah 52:14b
This is the indication that Jesus was more horrendously tortured even beyond recognition before He was crucified on the cross. Why did He has to suffer so then? It was longed prophesied in the period between 680 - 720 B.C. in the written Word of God that this was to come:
“But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” Isaiah 53:5,6
He came, so that the Word may be fulfilled. He came so that all our sins (the wrong things we done) may be upon Him. Most importantly, He came because God love us so much that He gave His son (Jesus) for us that we might be able to have a relationship with us.
Then Sunday came, the Sunday which give us hope! It is perhaps 3 days after what has happened which explain why Jesus is so widely proclaimed around the world:
“The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again… Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.”… while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven.” Luke 24:7,36,51
It is only because around 500 people truly witnessed the accession of Jesus Christ to heaven that many of them went on to proclaim the Good News to the point of death as they have the hope of reuniting with each other and especially their Saviour in Heaven when this life has passed. Most importantly, having experienced the love of God, they too now want to share this love & hope to their family, friends and everyone around!
Today if your love ones are in danger of losing their lives. YOU, having found the secret to the cure which will be able to save them, would you not direct them to the cure? It is because I have found the secret to the cure, I am just like a patient trying to share the antidote to the other patient because of the LOVE that I have tasted! If YOU are me, would YOU not do the same?
Because of sin, we are separated from having a relationship with God as our blood is stained. God offer us a blood transfusion at the Cross of Jesus, His son that we may have a renewing of blood so that we can have a relationship with Him.
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me (Jesus) has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.” John 5:24
As simple as it may sounds to you. All it takes is to pray in your heart to God telling Him you are sorry for your sins and thankful for His love in sending Jesus to die for you. You will like to believe in Jesus and take Him as His Saviour with an ending of “in the name of Jesus I pray, Amen” to the prayer.
A choice is set before you now, will you choose to passed from death into Life?
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