This Friday is a Good Friday. Most of the place that I know, celebrate Good Friday, and we can consider this as a public holiday. But apparently, there is at least a place that doesn’t celebrate Good Friday. a friend of mine from that place ask this question jokingly, “so, what’s good about this good friday? How come you guys have this good Friday there and not here?” Even though it’s a joke, it makes me pondering. Why do we celebrate Good Friday? Why do we consider this as a good friday? What so good about this Friday?

This is what I’ve learnt. It is a good Friday because we are helpless and we can’t save ourselves. and about 2000 years ago, God initiated to save us. Each one of us know that no matter what we’ve done we have this feeling of emptiness, a longing for “something” to fill that hole in our heart. You might consider to do good deeds, or you might fill it with money, games, knowledge, etc. But at the end, it feels like it’s still not enough. That’s why we try to find more of those things. I don’t know about you, but I feel blessed to know that there is God that think of that and initiate to redeem us.

It is a good Friday because God know there is only one way for salvation (believe it or not) and He fulfill that even when that means that we, as a human, doesn’t accept that. How would you feel when the good things that you did seems like an offense for the ones that you try to help? They mock and ridicule your good intention. If I’m the one that do that, and if I have the power to do that, I’ll just leave them. I’ll just pack up and go somewhere else. But thanks to God that He didn’t do that. He didn’t pack up and go. He did what He need to do for us. That’s why it’s good.

So in what I learnt and pondered. It is good, or even great, because of Him that give a solution for the bad things we’ve done, so that we have a second chance. How do you response to the story? whether we believe it or not, the event has happened. And because of that we have a choice. I pray that you can respond with thanksgiving and believe.

John 3:16-17 – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”

Have a blessed Good Friday