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PROGRAM D-8340
I wonder why we call Good Friday “Good Friday?” For those of us who have placed our trust in Jesus Christ as our Savior, this celebration of his resurrection is of utmost importance to us. Our salvation rests on the fact that Christ is risen indeed. Yet, why we would call this Friday a good day?
That day is a good day if you have an eternal perspective. It is the Day of Atonement when, once and for all, Jesus became our sacrifice—shedding his blood, paying the debt we owe—so that we could be forgiven of our sins and made righteous in Jesus.
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). That is what took place as Jesus was crucified. Therefore, he had to die in order to become that perfect sacrifice that would pay for our sins. As a result, we have the opportunity to become the righteousness of God so that God sees us in Christ—redeemed and righteous before God!
As you celebrate the resurrection, make sure you take time to truly meditate on all that Christ has done for you. Spend time thanking him for enduring the cross for you. Attend your church’s services, not just because it’s Easter, but because your heart is overflowing with thankfulness that you have a risen Savior.
I’ve been leading a tour to Israel for many years, and we’ll be going again in November. The reason I continue to offer these tours is because I know how the Bible comes alive once you walk where Jesus walked. We spend time in the Garden of Gethsemane—the actual Garden where Jesus spent his last evening with his disciples before he was crucified. We visit the place where we believe Caiaphas’s house stood—the house of the high priest where Jesus was put on trial in the middle of the night. We go to Old Jerusalem and walk the streets that he walked that last day. Believe me, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus is more real to me because I’ve been there, and I want others to have the same blessing of walking where Jesus walked.
It’s a special tour and I really hope you’ll join. Details are on line at christianworkingwoman.org.
