God's Friday

Today in the secular world is good Friday. In the Christian world it's God's Friday. Jesus died on the cross on a this day many, many years ago. He died for you and for me. Take Him at His word today and you won't regret it. I personally have had 3 answered prayers just this week alone! On Sunday I put in a request for my brother Mike to be returned to days. He hates working the graveyard shift. I just found out this morning that he has been switched back. (pray it lasts plz)

On Monday I emailed friends & family and asked for prayer regarding our roof that leaked for the first time. Tuesday Justin's dad looked at it and said it's a super easy fix and he is charging us a very, very reasonable fee to fix it, almost nothing!

On Wednesday the boys and Rox-Anne and I put out the signs for our service Sunday. I forgot to put power steering fluid in and ran into Goodyear while the sign was being put on the corner. They filled the tires, checked the oil and filled the very low power steering fluid for me. For free! I asked them twice how much and was shocked both times with their response. God is good! :)

Shelly



Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. John:19:30



Good Friday, a day of great solemnity,

Good Friday calls us to do what the disciples could not.

Good Friday calls us to join Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Jesus and John at the foot of the cross.



Good Friday invites us to enter that most excruciating moment of standing in our own impotence, unable to stop the dying. This day calls us to the steadiness of being present with Jesus and with one another in those harrowing moments of suffering and death.



It is always a “both/and”—we are called this day to wait for the moment when Jesus bows his head and gives up his spirit. And we are called every day to be present in that way to one another.



Some will discover a gift for nursing or visitation work. Others will have the innate ability to be with others whose lives are torn to ragged shreds by violence or war or natural disaster. Still others will discover that deep-rooted compassion that comes with living through grief and tragedy, seeing anew the suffering that surrounds us at every minute, though hidden by the glitz of our culture.



A mystery is revealed to us this day—the mystery of divine love, the love of Jesus, that permeates every moment of human life and experience. This day we are brought to the foot of the cross . The face of divine Love shines through Jesus’ dying flesh, and God’s own life, in Jesus, is united to ours.



“The Word became flesh and lived among us,” as the Gospel of John declares. John 1:14. In a way far beyond our human capacity to know or to understand, God is in Christ, knowing our sufferings from the inside out, hallowing the blood, the sweat and the tears, converting the cross from an instrument of death to a tree of life.



Truly, today is God’s Friday



May God grant us the grace to stand at the foot of the cross, to realize what it means and what it cost to redeem.

I love you Jesus. Help me to reflect Your love in this lost world I live in.

Amen.



Pastor Hersch