Can a day be both sad and joyous?
The day described in the chapter 15 is both sad and joyous for me.
Sad: That humans can be this cruel and have no true regard for life. To torture and kill an innocent person while letting a murderer and scoundrel go free, shows how expedient we humans can be. It is sad that soldiers can make ‘sport’ of a person, mocking and torturing them for a few laughs on the way to execution. That spectators would watch this kind of a death and be so up close and personal that they would taunt the dying person and mock him as he died.
The scene itself is incredibly sad. That we humans have done this sort of thing throughout our history reveals how depraved to the core we can be. Sad, very sad.
Joyous -maybe this isn’t the right word; happy isn’t correct either. Wonderful? Blessed? Whatever the better word might be, this day is arguably the greatest and most important day in human history. As horrible and heinous Jesus’ death was, it paid the penalty for human freedom from sin.
Maybe it had to be heinous to match the despicable sins it was covering and atoning for.
On that cross, Jesus paid the penalty of human sin with His life. And that is wonderful… that elicits joy. The greatest blessing humankind has ever received was given that day on that blood-stained cross.
That Friday was absolutely horrible and sad but at the same time it was amazingly good and wonderful. Joy to the world! Jesus’ death gives all who believe in Him…life!
All morning I sat and thought about that fateful, terrible, wonderful day…
Thank You, Jesus. Thank You.
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