FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2024 - GOOD FRIDAY

 FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2024 - “GOOD” HUH? (religious focus)

As a kid, we got to Good Friday - and I knew that was a terrible use of the word “GOOD.” How could any day that the Messiah, the Christ, was horribly crucified possibly be called GOOD? 

Now, I’m glad, maybe even excited (can I be excited??), that today is GOOD FRIDAY!!!  Maybe one of three days in the whole period of TIME that could be called GOOD!!  The other two days are Christmas and Easter.

Hey - I’m a pretty lousy person.  My thoughts are sometimes pretty cruel. Generally, we talk of “Thoughts, Words and Deed” 

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Paul writes the following in Romans 7:

I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature.[c] For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.  For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.  For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?

 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!

And it all dates back two-thousand years to a Friday - that was way MORE than good - a FRIDAY that was AWESOME!!!.

I’m going to celebrate “AWESOME FRIDAY.” THIS YEAR!!!

And, I’m going to follow that up in two days with SUPER AWESOME - INFINITELY AWESOME DAY OF RESURRECTION!!!

LIFE IS AWESOME

GOD IS AWESOME

LOVE IS AWESOME

LOVE WINS

LOVE IS SO AMAZING

LOVE CONQUESTS

THE INFINITE GOD LOVES EVEN ME!!!

WOO PLUS!!

Karen Anne White, ©, MARCH 29, 2024