Good Friday
Tonight I went to church (English version) for Good Friday service. It was a very unique service. Very meaningful and powerful. It started out with the usual songs, but the lights were low and they were more prayerful than usual. Quieter. Between songs, a person would go up and read a little paper about a struggle with some sin in their life. After each read their little paper, they would go over to a huge cross and pick up a hammer and nail that paper to the cross, they did this one by one between the songs. Then they stopped the songs, and passed baskets with paper and pencils in them and we were told that if we felt like writing a personal struggle, some sin we are facing in our own lives, then write it on the paper, and take it to the cross and nail it there. There were huge crosses all around the sanctuary. Next to the cross was a table with the bread and cups for communion. Each person would nail their paper and take the communion if they wanted to. When I was done, I sat there in my chair waiting for the others in the room to finish nailing, I closed my eyes and just listened to the sound of all those nails going in. Thinking of all those sins that Jesus died for.

Sometimes I think that my sin is the biggest in the world and then other times I think, well, everyone sins…it is not so bad…but as I sat there listening, I realized that we all have those sins, we all struggle, and even if I think mine is the worst, there is somebody out there who thinks theirs is the worst, but no matter how big, or small, it is sin…and sin is why Jesus did that for us on the cross.
It was very solemn…quiet except for those nails echoing.
Then the pastor got up and said…yes we need to look at those sins, we need to realize how needful we were for a Savior. We need to confess and repent. We need to remember those sins are on the cross. We have been forgiven. BUT…it did not stop at His death, if he had only died, then it would have been for nothing. He died, but rose from the grave. And that is why we can thank Him for those sins being on the cross, it was His victory over death that we celebrate on Easter. It was His Resurrection that gives us the forgiveness required to receive Eternal Life in Heaven.
Jesus died on what we call ‘Good’ Friday. Thanks to God, through the gift of His son Jesus...YES, IT IS A VERY GOOD FRIDAY!