Good Friday, Awesome God

He didn't have to do it

He could have avoided the pain

He could have given up on us

He didn't have to do it

But he chose to die

He chose to obey the Father

He willingly gave his life

He didn't have to do it

But he did!

What made this decision 

to do such a hard thing so easy?

Love

For God, the awesome and amazing God,

loved us so much

that he gave his only Son

to die on a cruel cross

for a fallen race, enemies of God at best,

so that he might buy us back from

death

hell

the devil

and sin

Love was at work

when all we see on Good Friday

is 

anger

hatred

rage

and death

It was the love

of God

that made this day

possible!

What's so good about Good Friday?

In this terrible day

we see the extent of God's love

that he would give his one and only Son

to redeem us.

"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." 1 John 4