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Friday, March 29, 2013

Good Friday?


This is going to be difficult to read (it has already proven difficult to write) because in it, I have to acknowledge the presence of sin, and the corresponding displeasure of God. In a culture of moral relativism, and self-reflective justification Good Friday is an inconvenient burst of light. I say light, because of how it illuminates two very important truths. One, that God is so determined to redeem his creation that he would suffer a horribly unjust, insulting, painful, and isolating death to see it's deliverance. Two: that we, as a mass of humanity, were, and are so bent on living in the darkness of our own righteousness that we were willing to kill God himself because the light of his perfection illuminated the thoughts and motives of our hearts. 

You see, what we have at the cross is the Lord taking on the sum of our offenses against him, and turning his own judgment upon himself. Thankfully Jesus righteousness was fully able to preserve him from abject destruction at that moment. Thankfully, God in his goodness had set that plan in motion at the Garden of Eden. Since we have then such a great sacrifice on our behalf, should we not then (since we are free from sin's bondage) take that energy with which we previously pursued sin and pursue Christ's righteousness at our disposal? 




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