Lot’s of people don’t like the word “good” being connected to the day when Jesus died. I personally think it’s the perfect word to use there. For those who would push back, they might say, “What? That’s the day we killed the Son of God! It’s a horrible thing! It was our sin that did it! It should be ‘Bad Friday!’” I totally understand how someone could think that way. I have often thought of the events on that day as terrible, but I think it’s important to shift our perspective.

Friday could be seen as bad if we measure it from what we did, but it becomes “good” when we measure it from what God did. Actually, if we’re honest and we measure it from what we did, we should call it “Weak Friday,” or “Foolish Friday.” It’s not really that bad because we aren’t really the ones that did it. It was the will of the Father that sent Jesus to the cross, and the obedience of the Son that brought Him to death. Jesus could have stepped down at any time, he makes that abundantly clear in the Scriptures. Yet He went, not because He lost, but because He wanted to prove His victory.

So today, solemnity is okay. We should recognize our part in putting Jesus on the cross - but never trick yourself into believing anything other than the fact that Jesus chose to hang up there and die.

In Christ,

PD