Good Friday, 2024

It is Friday, but Sunday is coming. 

Today is the holiest day of the year for Christians, I think, in terms of how we should stop, rest, reflect, repent, redirect,  return to worship. 

I am going to say something radical, perhaps. Most of us think of today as a day that shows God's ultimate love for the humans He created. And I do not deny that. Romans 5:8 is enough: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

However, the cross is about so much more, if possible. 

It, with the necessary resurrection, is about the restoration of the universal order God created. It is about justice delayed no longer denied. It is about the kingdom, righteousness, the depth of human rebellion, betrayal, and fulfilled prophecy. Also grief and hope and expectation and promise. 

To be honest, all those "themes," if you will, take more study, time, thought and work to parse out, if doing so is even possible. 

Yet, how can we understand the depth of such love, either? So, no false binaries. If the cosmic themes of the cross are too much to fathom, just rest in the love that will not let you go.