Good Friday

Today is Good Friday. It is good because "The great redeeming work is done." For you. For me. Christ died for sinners. There is a solution to our problem. A way to peace, joy, and life. Jesus said, "Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also." John 14:1-3 

I urge you this Easter weekend to consider believing. Spoiler alert: it gets better... death could not hold Jesus. He died, but he lives.

“It is finished.” John 19:30
                                             

’Tis finished! The Messiah dies,
Cut off for sins, but not his own!
Accomplished is the sacrifice,
The great redeeming work is done;
Finished the first transgression is,
And purged the guilt of actual sin,
And everlasting righteousness
Is now to all the world brought in.

’Tis finished, all my guilt and pain,
I want no sacrifice beside,
For me, for me, the Lamb is slain,
And I am more than justified;
Sin, death, and hell are now subdued,
All grace is now to sinners given,
And lo, I plead th’ atoning blood,
For pardon, holiness, and heaven.

Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762)