Good Friday

Matthew 27:46

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Good Friday, maybe seems like a strange name for the day in which Jesus died upon the cross. I think about all of his agony, his pain and suffering, all of the blood and gore. We might say to ourselves. What’s good about that?

Well, some have speculated that the English term Good Friday is actually a corruption of a German term for that day, God’s Friday. That makes sense to us. After all, isn’t that the Chief reason for which God sent his Son into the world to offer His life as a sacrifice on the cross on Good Friday?

We can also think about who it is, who dies there. It’s truly God himself. The second person of the Trinity, the one who is both true God and true man and one person. He offers his life on the cross. So certainly the term God’s Friday is appropriate.

It is still appropriate for us to refer to it as Good Friday. No, it wasn’t an easy day for Jesus whatsoever. It was a day filled with so much suffering and pain. Agony. Even as he cries out from the cross.

My God. My God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46)

I think about him even forsaken by God. But he did all of these things for us, all of these things for our salvation, which makes that day truly good. And so it’s very appropriate that we refer to this day as Good Friday. Amen.