Forgiveness, the Goodness of God

Why on earth is Good Friday, good?  This is a question that ought to make us pause and reflect, at least once a year.  And for gratitude, more often, or as long as we need to reconnect with how blessed we are to live and breathe in this life that God alone has given us.

The goodness of God cannot be summed up 
any better than via the goodness in Good Friday. 

It is GOOD, and indeed it is VERY good.

Easter is a time of year, each year, to set aside time to stop, and to think, to ponder, and to be grateful for the life we have been given.  Sure, to be grateful for the actual life we live, but also and mainly for the LIFE in our heart and soul for the glory set before us in God making a way for us.

We have been given something that we can never repay, 
where ‘repayment’ would be laughable because 
we have neither stock nor currency.

Can we simply take a moment this day, and over the coming days, to ponder the weight of glory in the Cross, to ponder what was done, to ponder what is being done in our midst, and to ponder the enormous debt of gratitude we can exude for what has been DONE for each of us?

One moment in time.  Can we let it arrive?  Can we sit and breathe and ponder, using what we discover afresh, with thanks, what we might do in response, how we might posture ourselves for His purposes and glory?

Can Easter be used to reconnect us 
to Him, and therefore back to ourselves?

It certainly can...

Thank You, Jesus, for the Cross.
Thank You that You came 
and did for each of us what 
we could not do for ourselves.
You endured a Roman crucifixion,
and You would do it all over again,
if it were needed.

But today, remembering Good Friday,
we thank You most that You 
do not need to do it again.

And in that is a message,
that You saved us once for all time.

Help us live in the sheer acceptance of the totality 
of this free gift of grace we have been given—
a gift we needed most of all in life, 
a gift we could not procure of our own.

Help us, Lord, to accept WHAT You have done.
Give us peace in this acceptance;
a peace that wells up to joy and hope,
all in full measure for Your glory.

AMEN.

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