Forgiveness and Good Friday

* Yaoreiyo Rungsung

Christians observe Good Friday with solemnity, awesome and mourning heart with much devout and heart rending emotions. If there had been no Good Friday there would be no Easter Sunday (ie Resurrection Day, the first day of the week) to observe as Lord saviour's day.

Today, Good Friday is hoisted uniquely as an international holiday/Holy day penetrated to every religion, governmental department, NGO, farmer, social, educational institution, business and other important authorities, bodies and organisations etc.

Good Friday or 'Holy Friday' is outstanding and remarkable making Friday one of the weekdays a solemn day with serenity, respect and a day with tribute to Jesus Christ, remembering His Crucifixion on the cross for human's sin.

Jesus Crucifixion was an act of forgiveness for our sins making His death a sign and symbol of sacrificial love for mankind in first degree of love. His love for man is reality in truth, because He himself is truth and reality is found in Him. God is love says the Bible. Forgiveness and sacrifice is an image of love translated into action, with selfless and obedience to save every mankind on this earth, undertaken by Jesus Christ.

The power and spiritual feat of death, forgiveness and resurrection as an unbreakable record of indomitable highest degree of God's kingdom performed by transfiguration of powerful Godly replicate inducted as fully God and fully man-is Jesus Christ the Saviour of the world who offered His life on the cross.

Perceiving his front-line journey and pioneering painful step to undertake to save mankind, for Jesus Christ Good Friday was the most sorrowful Friday for Him. He sweated blood by drops instead of normal perspiration because of the anguish He foreknown that He will be crucified without any mercy.

His death on the cross was an excruciating one which He bears the burden making Himself like a sinner, instead of us sinners who ought to die for our sins. Jesus is sinless. Christ died for ungodly; demonstrates His own love for us in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, the fullest deed ever found on this earth (Romans 5:7-8).

Death is nature which no man can prevent. Any death is equal as Jesus also died the nature of mankind's death. However, the corpse of Jesus Christ inside the tomb for three days (after bringing down from the cross) doesn't experience decay but resurrected with glorified body with exuberance and as a colossus Son of God existing amongst us in spirit.

Jesus Christ has a great sense of forgiveness for every mankind without any favouritism including, robbers, killers, prostitutes, alcoholics, rapists etc. which He demonstrated His love in true spirit of His Godly nature by pronouncing touchy and unexpected words to the killers of Him which He said, "Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing," while still hanging on the cross..

Jesus Crucifixion reverberate every year's Good Friday to know Him and accept Him as our personal saviour for Christians and non-Christians. Good Friday commemorates as a harbinger to signify Jesus the exact radiance of the living God who gave His life as a ransom for us. Before His last breath, Jesus said, "It is finished," and gave up His spirit (John 19:30).

The Holy Bible says; "Obedience is better than sacrifice," (1 Samuel 15:22). Jesus obeyed His Father to the last step assigned to Him. The story of Jesus and His excruciating life on earth was a repercussioning life which was not a good one for Him.

God the Father in Heaven doesn't sent His son Jesus as a spiritual bigwig on this earth nor personified Him as a royalist or born into an affluent family. Jesus, who being in very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death-even on the cross.

Our past and future sin is already forgiven which was nailed on the cross once for all. Jesus death becomes power when our sins are washed away by His death on the cross. Sin is dark and bitter and its sting is death in hell for anyone who does not believe. So, let us revive and lead a spiritual life .

To admonish every reader of this epistle, let us remember that, forgiveness is not a license to commit sin. Nor, by goodness, no one will gain the ear of God by recital of his own merits or goodness. It is the one who confess his sin who is assured of the divine intervention.

May God bless us all brothers and sisters in Christ who observe Good Friday with spiritual freedom to magnify the image of God-Jesus who wish to come into your life if we open the door of our hearts.

Praise God!
HalIeluyah!
Jesus never die.