Finding our way through the Wilderness

1 Corinthians 5:7

New International Version (NIV)

⁷ Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Day Thirty-Nine

Good Friday

Today is Good Friday and it is the day that we reflect on Jesus’ love for us. He loved us so much that He gave His life as a ransom so that we may have eternal life. He endured pain, torture, misery, loneliness, ridicule, and death because He loves us so. However, some people still ask the question why did Jesus have to die?

The scriptures can give us the answers but first let me clear up anyone question. Who kill Jesus? No matter who you pinned the physical act of crucifying Jesus on, the fact is clear that we all, human beings, killed Jesus because of our sinful ways. We know this from reading Matthew 26: 53. Jesus said that He could have called on His Father and He would have sent Jesus more than twelve legions of angels. This means that no one could have done anything to Jesus here on earth unless the Father ordained it. Jesus had to die to eradicate our sins and mend the bridge between us and God.

When sin entered the world through the deception of Adam and Eve it caused a separation behind God and humans, whom He created. After that sin and wickedness grew and became a part of our nature, which in turn further widened the rift between God and Humans. It got so bad that God even regret creating us (Genesis 6:5-7).

Throughout the Old Testament people made sacrifices trying to atone for their sins and heal their relationship with God. However nothing was good enough to make up for the world’s sin, this is why Jesus had to come down from glory and die for our sins. Jesus was pure and perfect so He alone could bear the weight of our sins and reconnected us with our Father.

Lastly, Jesus had to die because He had to be resurrected. He had to conquer death so that He could have all power in His hands. Once Jesus was resurrected the power that sin held over us vanished, no longer could we be held down by our past sins because Jesus had paid the ultimate sacrifice. Now we have a Savior who can wash us clean by His blood and make us pure and acceptable in God’s sight.

So as we celebrate Good Friday remember what all our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ had to endure just so that we could be free from the bondage of sin and rejoined with our Father!

Please join us tomorrow for our last day in what I hope has been a wonderful, educational, and pleasing journey for you as it has been for me. Until then God Bless!