On this Good Friday, let us remember why Christ died. The suffering on the cross was no grandstanding, or setting an example. It was an event of real purpose of real consequence. On that day nearly two thousand years ago, a great transaction was made.
Romans 6 tells us the wages of sin is death. Jesus died on our behalf, because of our sins. He received what was rightly due to us, and so paid the price of our sins, which was owed to God.
So it was for sin. Look and see how awful sin is. Observe and consider the consequences of sin, our sins. How can we then ever take sin lightly?
While the day is full of many gruesome details, the pain and the suffering, yet we can praise God for what happened. In death our Lord dealt fully with our greatest problem, reconciling us to God.
I am reminded of a verse in the hymn “Rise, my soul, behold ’tis Jesus”, by Denham Smith:
ReplyDeleteAll thy sins were laid upon Him,
Jesus bore them on the tree;
God, who knew them, laid them on Him,
And, believing, thou art free.
Brian