good friday?

 

Yes, if you are aware of what is to come just a few days from now, today
is good. But Mary, the
disciples, the people staring at a man they believed to
be the Messiah, the Chosen
One, to them today would have been anything
but
good. I wonder if they,
in that moment, decided it was good. To look at that
situation and choose to say, “It is good,” would
have been the ultimate act of
trust and faith that God is good and this day is His so it must be good. Even
seeing with their own eyes their
Emmanuel die on a cross after enduring
unimaginable pain and humiliation, upon seeing Christ take his last breath,
upon actually seeing his blood dripping down the wood onto dirt, to open their
mouths and exclaim “Today is good.” To worship God an
d p
roclaim His goodness in
the midst of death and darkness…

 

 

Maybe everyday is meant to be good. Perhaps Good Monday and Good
Tuesday should occur every week. In the midst of anything every single day
shouldn’t we exclaim “Today is good?” Many times we can look back at a bad
day, at struggles and confusion and say, “God is using that. I understand. I had
to endure x so that I could get to point y in my relationship
with Him. That was a good day.” I think that in and of itself is a feat that
that brings God joy. But to look in the face of death as it falls upon you and
say “This is good,” is placing your heart in such a state that causes God to sing.

I wonder if Jesus, as he hung on the cross, the life he
humbly took on fading away, looked up to Heaven and in his heart said “Today is
a good day”…