Today marks what the world knows as "Good Friday". We remember, along with the saints all over the globe, the culmination of Christ's incarnate mission when He bore the sins of His people in His penal, substitutionary atonement. Up to this point, His incarnate ministry was to live a life of personal, perpetual, perfect obedience to the will of the Father, keeping every jot and tittle of the Law of God in our place. Now to test the resolve of His obedience even further, Jesus Christ took on our sin, received our lashes, bore our "crown" and cross, and suffered the ultimate sorrow in our stead: alienation from the Father, Who cannot look upon sin.
All this for us. The scene leaves us breathless, in awestruck wonder, that the Son of God, the Word made flesh, unlike the gods of the pagan imagination, came down, lowered Himself to serve and substituted His life for ours'. Glory to You, Lord Christ for the embodiment of God's love, Oh Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world!
...The rest of the Good News is the forsakenness of the cross is not the end of the story. Take heart. Sunday is coming! Read these prophetic words, foreshadowing the trial of our Passover Lamb and Suffering Messiah in Psalm 22 (here: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+22&version=CSB ).
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