Good Friday

It seem befitting as I am sitting here on Friday afternoon and the dimness of the sky is encroaching as the lightning is the only light part of the sky. It's reflective of the actual weather and sights seen on Good Friday. "For just as the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man in His day. But first, He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation." Luke 17:24-25. Today I was looking up the word suffer as this is what Jesus did for us on Good Friday. When I looked it up in the Greek the definition is as follows: to experience a sensation or impression (usually painful)- feel, passion, suffer, vex. The other verse that I ran across was Mark 8:31-33 "And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. And He was stating the matter plainly. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. But turning around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but man's." I think of the word Good Friday- and how man would not thinking suffering and dying on a cross would be a good thing and that's exactly what Jesus addresses with Peter- you're eyes are on man's affairs, not God's. For in God's eyes this was good. How Jesus then goes on to say- If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow Me. The same is true for us. If we walk with Christ we will experience suffering- together- however my suffering will never compare to Christ's...The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. Knowing that there is something that comes after the suffering- that Jesus rises- death, sin is defeated.