Black Friday

One of my favorite Christian artists (rap), Timothy Brindle wrote one of the best lines contextualizing the Cross of Christ that I have heard. He said, "Forever will I tell, in three hours Christ suffered more than any sinner ever will in hell."

The blows from human hands, the insults and rants from human lips, the desertion of human hearts, and the worst judicial punishment known, pails in comparison to the agony Christ endured when He absorbed the wrath of God for His people. The eternity of hell that was due all of the sins of all of His people was satisfied in a matter of minutes. What kind of Savior are we dealing with?

He was guiltless - we were the guilty ones. He deserved life - we were the ones deserving of death. And yet He willingly, obediently, mightily and lovingly went - that Friday - to His sacrificial moment. It was a moment sanctioned before time, one necessitated in Gen 3:6, one eagerly awaited in Lev 16, and one culminated in Jn 19.

Let us slow down and remember the Lamb of God.