Good Friday! For Who?

    This is Friday, April 18, 2014, we refer to the Friday before
Easter as, Good Friday. It is a holiday that commemorates our
Lord and Saviors death on the cross, for your sins and for my
sins.
    While for us, His Followers, it may be a Good Friday. I
wonder how our Savior, Jesus Christ looks back on it. I know
that He did it all for us. I know that the pain and suffering, He
endured, was ultimately, why He came to earth. To be a living
sacrifice for all of mankind, whether they believe it or not.
    Jesus's Friday, actually began late Thursday night and into 
Friday. All that was going to happen to Him, weighed heavy
on Him, as He prayed in the garden. We are told that Jesus prayers
were so intense that sweat became blood. I can't even begin to
imagine the battle, the inner struggle in someone that was 100%
God and at the same time 100% man. The God in Him, knowing
that this is the only way to save man, and the man in him wanting
to save his life at all costs. This inner struggle, just started Jesus's 
Friday.
    Then the soldiers came, a kiss of betrayal, by Judas, then hauled
away to begin the torture and ridicule that would lead to the cross.
David, in Psalms 22 gives us a picture of the torture that Jesus would
go through. The Psalm talks about being able to count ribs, not 
because of starvation, but because the skin has been ripped away
and the white of the bone is showing through. This Psalm was written
about a 1,000 years before Christ was born and 500 years before
this torturous death was devised, during the reign of Darius, King
of Persia.
    By all historical accounts crucifixion was the cruelest of deaths.
Jesus to add to that cruelty was not tied to the cross but nailed. His 
hands extended and nailed. His feet nailed flat against the cross, with
his legs at a 45 degree angle. Then the cross is raised and dropped 
into a hole. The muscles in your thighs begin to give out and your 
body starts to drop, as weight transfers to your nailed wrists, your
shoulders begin to separate and pressure on your lungs begins to
increase. The body straining against the nails and rubbing against
a rough wooden cross, begins the arduous task of pushing up to
breath, rest, pushing up to breath. The carbon dioxide begins to 
increase in the blood, until you die from carbon dioxide poisoning.
    Jesus, Our Lord and Savior, died in our place. Every drop of 
blood, saving souls from the time of the cross, through all eternity.
    While we may look at today as Good Friday, because of who was
sacrificed for us. 
     Jesus remembers it, as the first time in eternity, that God could
not look upon His Son, because of OUR SIN and that separation
broke Jesus' Heart, and blood and water flowed.