April 7, 2023 - Toughest Day

     In yesterday’s blog I wrote about how tough a day that Wednesday was.  Murphy would have felt right at home.
     Today is Good Friday.  For many it is just an extra day off and a long weekend.    
     For the believer it ought to be a holy day.  It is a day of a heavy heart for me as I remember the price that Jesus paid for our sins when He shed His blood at Calvary.  I will think of His sacrifice far more than once today.
     Daybreak has a Good Friday service from 2:00-3:00 because Jesus died at 3:00 in the afternoon. The songs are about the Cross.  It may be the hardest sermon of the year for me to preach—not because of the content but because of the unworthiness I feel.  Who is worthy to try to adequately communicate that God Son’s died in our place?
     What we often fail to consider is what was this day like for God. We have some glimpse of what it was like for Jesus the Son.  The physical pain, the emotional abuse, and the shame can somewhat be fathomed.
     But we have no understanding whatsoever of what it was like when “He who knew no sin became sin” as Jesus hung suspended between heaven and earth. He took upon Himself the sins of the whole world past, present, and future, including my sin.
     We have no understanding of what Jesus felt when He cried out, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”  For the first time in eternity there was a separation between the Father and the Son.  Sin always separates us from God.
     I am not sure I have ever personally or even read about the thought of what that day was like for God the Father.  What was it like for Him to see His One and Only Son give His life for sinners such as I?  What was it like for Him to feel the separation that Jesus felt?  What did the Father feel?
     We can’t even imagine.  It is beyond our capacity. 
     Amazing love, how can it be, that you my God would die for me?