I was so excited this morning on my drive to
work because there wasn’t any traffic. I wasn’t bobbing and weaving through
neighborhoods and side streets. I was early for work, which meant I could get
coffee, so I was even more excited about that. I thought to myself, “You know
Kelly, today is a good day. It’s going to be a good Friday.” And then it’s as
if I heard a very audible, “DUH! Of course it’s going to be good, because it’s
Good Friday.” And in that moment the Lord convicted me something fierce. Today
is Good Friday, because today is the day that we celebrate the fact that Jesus
is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. That fact, that truth,
is what makes today (and all the days, really) so, so good. It’s not the fact
that the movement of traffic worked out in my favor and I that I got coffee
before work. It’s good because of what He did on the cross for us. It’s good
because He rises. It’s good not because of what I do, it’s good because the
Lamb is taking away the sin of the world.
Today we remember and reflect on what Christ
did for us, is still doing for us, by looking to that cross. This weeks reading
really hit home for me, (and it’ll probably be hit home time and again) the
importance of not hiding from Jesus. He’s constantly pursuing me. He’s down in
my potholes with me, reminding me that the battles already been won. Sin has
already been defeated. He’s reminding me that in losing my life there is such
freedom. The fact that sin has already been defeated means more than that I am
free, it means that I am safe. It means that He is continually enchanting me to
Himself, and all I need to do is take my eyes off myself and look to who He is,
what He is doing, and live in to that truth.
“Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the
sin of the world.”
Blessings!
-Kelly
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