Today is Good Friday

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Today is Good Friday
Today is “Good Friday” in our Christian world. Christians all over the world will pause at one point today and remember what happened 2000 year ago in Israel, near Jerusalem, on a Hill called Golgotha. Jesus died that day with very few of his followers standing near by. The people nearby were mostly his family and a few of his close friends.

The execution had nothing to do with the Arabic People… but all to do with the Ruling Jews at the time as they manipulated the Representatives of the Roman Empire.

They executed Jesus because he was seemingly in opposition to what they were doing. Jesus was for honesty and truthfulness – and they were not so much for that. The original teaching that they possessed had been handed down from the patriarch Moses and all the leaders before them were not followed much at the time.

Jesus’ way of telling them and exposing them for what they had become, made them mad. They were so mad they were willing to take to take out the opposition to their deceitfulness.

It was a Dark Day in the World at that time. It is hard to see how it was a “Good Friday” on that terrible day. One Man murdered/executed because many men hated him.

But he wasn’t just a man. Christians see Him as the very Son of God. Through the many accounts and the teachings that we hold today we see Him as the Saviour.

No He didn’t save the people of His day from the Great Roman Empire. But rather the entire world and the people that would live after that time – from their sins... all of them. He became the Way, the Truth and the Life for all that would follow him.

I am a Christian. I follow Jesus. I try my best to live by his teachings. I believe that He has taken my sin away up to this point and that He continues to work in my life, cleansing and preparing me for better things.

I am still very human with the ability to fail in many ways. And I do – only too often. But the tremendous fact is that He never leaves me nor does He stop caring for me. Jesus is closer today to me than He was yesterday. It is all about a relationship that is real.

On this Blog I try not to be “preachy” or pound home my opinion about my faith. Instead I try to live it out in front of my world and my readers. For 35 years as a full time Minister I worked diligently at helping Christians to live their lives in a Christ like manner before their friends and neighbors. Now as a “normal” Christian, as opposed to a “professional” (i.e. Minister in a Church getting paid to be one) – I simply live it out daily.

Today I remember Jesus and what He did that day and what they did to Him.

And I say in a simple prayer today, “Thank you Jesus for loving me enough to die on that Cross for my sins… and the sins of all my friends in this world… and all the ones that are not my friends. Jesus – some may be reading about You for the very first time through this Blog Posting. My hope is that they find Your love as well and the forgiveness that they need so much of… Thanks Jesus for Your love for me…. Your friend, Murray.”

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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