Good Friday or Dark Friday?

Good Friday, a day celebrated for thousands of years by Christians as the day in which our Savior was crucified. I wonder though if we have thought about how dark that day really is?

For the first followers of Christ that day was not good.

This was a brutal day when all hope was dashed. Hope for your future, hope for your nations future, and hope for humanities future was taken and killed. What you once saw as hope for the world now hangs on a Roman cross lifeless.

Death.

We never know how to handle it. Especially when it is the hope for the future. These disciples saw nothing but death. They saw no way out of their pain, anguish, sorrow, and brokenness. They felt alone, abandoned, and lost. Peter Denied him and the rest left him.

They left him in the moment of his most need.

Can you imagine what they felt? No closure or ending.

What none of them saw was that death had to happen so that resurrection could come. The death of Jesus isn't the end. Death HAD to happen.

We have to have death to have life. Life is what Jesus promises. Do you need life? Maybe it's time to put something to death on this dark Friday. Is it your sorrow, addiction, rage, selfishness, loneliness, or whatever it is you wrestle with. Maybe it's time we allow for resurrection to take place.

Friday is here. Death is here. Resurrection is just 2 days away.

What do you need to put to death?