Thread by @SteveDeaceShow

#GoodFriday is arguably the darkest day in all of human history. The day we killed love incarnate, truth incarnate, and God incarnate because He forced us to confront our own sin. So why do we call it good? Because He chose that death on our behalf, dying the death we deserved.

There is no other way to satisfy the justified wrath of God against us, there is no other qualified atonement for our sin, and there is no other way to ultimately reconcile ourselves to the only living God without the recognition of what happened on #GoodFriday and why.

#GoodFriday is God’s answer to the evil in the world, which we caused. An offer of an undeserving atoning sacrifice that when accepted will begin to make all things new. For God confronts the evil in this world at the molecular level where it starts — in our collective hearts.

The first time God Incarnate arrived on earth, He did so humbly. First as a baby in a manger, and later as our willing sacrificial lamb. #GoodFriday is a reminder, though, that the time of Christ’s humbleness toward humanity is not an indefinite period of time.

For #Easter is the reminder that when He comes again He will do so in power and glory, as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Just as the giant stone was rolled away and the last enemy, death, was conquered on that Resurrection Day…

…When Christ returns evil and its unrepentant doers once and for all will be ultimately judged and vanquished away in His power and His might. He will not come to offer undeserved atonement again, but very deserved judgment on that glorious day.

So the lesson for us is don’t just celebrate the baby in the manger at Christmas, without also dropping to your knees and offering eternal gratitude to the lamb slain for us on #GoodFriday.

For one day every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess — believer and unbeliever alike — that Christ alone is Lord, forever and ever, Amen. Be ready for that day, we also don’t have an indefinite period of time to prepare, and only get one chance in this life.

How many more #GoodFriday do you have to prepare to meet your maker?