Good Friday

We refer to yesterday, as Good Friday.



Hmmmmm? It is an interesting term since it's the day the Son of God was unjustly and brutally beaten and crucified.


But it really was good because it really was God behind it all.


Always remember this, God uses men, even evil men to do His work.


While men were killing an innocent man, God was accepting a perfect sacrifice and that is why even though it seemed so wrong it was actually exactly so right.


Don't forget Good Friday


LIFE CAME TO US from Death THAT CAME TO HIM!


Never take it for granted, spend some time reflecting upon the amazing love that He demostrated and the great salvation He accomplished.


Then live in the light of His glory a life worthy. Good Friday is good, because God is good. ~Am


Bearing the Sting  from Streams in the Desert
"He opened not his mouth" (Isa. 53:7).


How much grace it requires to bear a misunderstanding rightly, and to receive an unkind judgment in holy sweetness! Nothing tests the Christian character more than to have some evil thing said about him. This is the file that soon proves whether we are electro-plate or solid gold. If we could only know the blessings that lie hidden in our trials we would say like David, when Shimei cursed him, "Let him curse;... it may be... that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day."


Some people get easily turned aside from the grandeur of their life-work by pursuing their own grievances and enemies, until their life gets turned into one little petty whirl of warfare. It is like a nest of hornets. You may disperse the hornets, but you will probably get terribly stung, and get nothing for your pains, for even their honey is not worth a search.


God give us more of His Spirit, "who, when he was reviled, reviled not again"; but "committed himself to him that judgeth righteously." "Consider him that endureth such contradiction of sinners against himself."--A. B. Simpson


"Before you" He trod all the path of woe,
He took the sharp thrusts with His head bent low.
He knew deepest sorrow and pain and grief,
He knew long endurance without relief,
He took all the bitter from death's deep cup,
He kept not a blood-drop but gave all up.
"Before you" and for you, He won the fight
To bring you to glory and realms of light.
--L.S.P.



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