Don't Let Good Friday Pass By...

Kevin DeYoung writes regarding Good Friday:

Do not let Good Friday pass you by like a set of airline instructions. Fix your eyes on the cross. Not as the place to show us our worth, but to show us the weight of our sin. Not as the place where Jesus simply felt our pain, but where he bore our penalty. Not as the place where God overturned divine justice, but where God in mercy fulfilled his justice. Not as the place where love died, but where love reigned supreme. Pay careful attention to the cross. Here we see a great salvation, delivering us from a great wrath, revealing to us a great Savior who was wounded for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, that by his stripes we might be healed.

Let us all take this day to dwell where the cries of Calvary can be heard. However, let us not just take this day to look at the cross. Let us not just this day meditate on the Cross. Let us dwell there everyday so that we may never for one day forget the sacrifice that was paid for our sins. But especially this day, let us reflect deeply upon the work Christ did in our place. For in our place, condemned He stood.

Read Kevin's whole post here.