HAVE YOU EVER...celebrated Good Friday?

I love this week.  I had a 4 year old tell me the other day, “Miss Angie, Easter is my FAVORITE holiday!” Knowing that she is a precious lover of Christ, I knew she was not talking about the Easter bunny!

My church always has a Maundy Thursday worship service on the Thursday night before Easter.  This is one of my favorite services each year.  It really reminds you of the price that Jesus paid for you and me.  We always go home in the dark and in silence contemplating Easter morning!

I am sad to say that nothing usually happens between Thursday and Sunday for me.  Even though, we usually have Good Friday off from work or school.  We don’t really celebrate it.  Not that it should be celebrated, but it should be focused on or revered more.

I can’t wait until Sunday morning when I can remember that the tomb was empty too!  But Jesus died on Friday night.  The veil was torn.  His blood was shed.  Satan thought that he had won another battle.  A big one!  We can’t just skip that part of the story, because we don’t want to think about it.

And when I think,

That God, His Son not sparing;

Sent Him to die,

I scarce can take it in;

That on the cross,

My burden gladly bearing,

He bled and died

To take away my sin.

HAVE YOU EVER thought about it?

"How Great Thou Art" Hymn, Isaiah 53:5, John 19:34