Good Friday

Today is good for us.

About 2014 years ago, it was not good for Christ.

Imagine going to the party of the year knowing that you are going to die a horrific and terrible death. Then have everyone you love (save a very few) desert you. Then make sure that God deserts you.

Now, know that this is going to happen a week ahead of time.

Do you go? No, probably not.

Jesus did.

We focus on what he did, yet we never talk about what that week must have been like. The pure mental torture that Christ must have endured before he even set foot into Gethsemane.

Perhaps that is part of how He was able to go to the cross so willingly. Perhaps His human mind broke a little. Perhaps not.

The physical pain of the cross and the spiritual pain of having God turn His back on Jesus wasn't the only thing that He had to endure. He had the mental pain of knowing!

Yet He did it willingly.

Why?

So we may have hope and live.