"It's Friday, but Sunday is coming!"

True love. Every person longs for it, maybe in different ways. But deep down, haven’t you always desired and wanted that someone to share your thoughts, hopes, and dreams with. I don’t really know how guys desire true love, but I can tell you how girls just long for that true love. Sometimes it even becomes a passion of ours to find that true love. Now that can be a whole other topic, but I want to talk about our True Love.
Today is Good Friday. Easter Sunday is so quickly approaching. Have you ever taken time to just stop, meditated, and realized what actually happened today about 2,000 years ago? It is really hard for me to put all of this words (which is very rare!) Here is how I think about it: Jesus had been living among the people (including Jews) not causing political turmoil but just living a perfect life sharing truths with people and performing miracles. He did gain many followers during his life. However, the Jews wanted their Messiah to be a mighty man who would overthrow the Roman government and bring peace for them. God had different plans. Jesus didn’t come to earth to live a perfect life, perform miracles, and cause the Roman government to fall. No, He came to live this holy and blameless life, show us how to live, and then die so we don’t have too. He rose from the grave and is now sitting beside our God in Heaven.
Read in the gospel of Mark, chapters 14 through 16.
Mark describes the end of Jesus’ life so beautifully. His words are cut and dry and I love his writing style. Think about our Savior. He stood being tried and then convicted of nothing but sentenced to death. He was whipped, beaten, belittled and wore thorns around His head, taking on all my sins. For me. He carried a heavy cross through town after being put through the most torture the government allowed without physically killing the person. Carrying the cross on His back, the wood that would support His perfect and blameless life He lived, but then dying on it taking on the sins of all humanity.
Before the Jewish leaders came to the garden to arrest Jesus, He was praying. I hadn’t ever analyzed or really looked at that prayer until recently. He cries out “Abba, Father.” Abba is the most dearest thing to call your father; like calling out for your daddy. Mark describes what happens so beautifully! Jesus calls out for His daddy saying, “ everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” This time of Jesus praying Mark uses to show us that He is distressed. Jesus isn’t necessarily worried about the physical death. He prays that this “cup” would pass. Cup meaning hour, that this hour would pass. Now, a brief little history lesson. In Isaiah, Jeremiah, and other prophets in the Old Testament use the word cup. When they did, cup represented the wrath of God. Jesus isn’t scared of dying, but rather taking on our ransom, the ransom for all humanity, for all ages. Think about that. Jesus said in chapter 10 of Mark that He is that ransom. That ransom in dying for us separated Him from His father. He had never been separated from His daddy before. He had to die. This terrified Him. But He did it. He knew He had too. It was what He was sent to do. So you could have a relationship with Him. So you wouldn’t die (because Paul tells us in Romans that we deserve death).
This is True Love. I don’t know about you, but when I think about this, no other true love could do this. He did though. For me. He can be your True Love too. He wants to be.
Let Him be your True Love.
“It’s Friday, but Sunday is coming!”- Ben Stuart, Breakaway
Humbly yours,
His Servant