What a good day today has been. So much display pictures of the symbolic death of Jesus Christ here and there and the many personal messages of why today’s always called a good friday worldwide. Amazing!
If there’s anything I have observed that we often practice as humans is trying to always think the message is for the other person and therefore doesn’t have to do with me. We like to shift blames and make excuses for ourselves. Today hasn’t been an exemption to that nature. Everyone thinks the other person should exemplify Jesus and not him or her.
But I choose to believe that we have the power to make everyday a good friday.
It is called “Good Friday”, because someone chose to lay down His life for the very people who least deserved it. And even prayed for the forgiveness of His tormentors while they were in the very act. Theologians said it happened on a Friday. Now that’s really good!
We can make today even better if we do likewise. If we can love the undeserving and do not wish our fellow man evil, especially the one whom we think is cruel and thinks deserves to “reap what he has sown!”
Where grace is, you might not necessarily reap what you have sown. Now, i know that could mean blasphemy for some people but that’s actually the simple explanation of GRACE.
So the next time someone does you bad and you just wished for something bad to happen to him so as to prove that “God don catch am” for you, kindly take a moment and ask which God did. Was it the Jesus who asked the father to forgive His killers or the God of the disciple Stephen who begged similarly for his killers?
We can actually make all the days of the rest of our lives a good friday by living by Jesus’ examples, not in words but indeed, to every soul we come across irrespective of their tribes and tongues and regardless of what they have done to us.
It can be difficult especially when the focus is on us but if we just shift it from ourselves, we’ll always make excuse for other peoples’ failure. I found that it’s a lot easier to believe that people act only to the best of their knowledge. If they had known better, they would have done better. Even the killers of Jesus.
Jesus lived the Good Friday throughout His life on Earth. And we can too. I can and I’m willing.
I pledge to the grace of Good Friday.
Cheers.
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