Thank God it's Friday

The slogan, TGIF, was a popular one for me when I was growing up. The broadcasting company ABC had the nightly television group of shows which played wholesome family television shows. As a kid I didn’t think much about it, it was a time when you could say God without getting in trouble and you could use the slogan Thank God It's Friday without getting in trouble.

This Friday is a time of reflection. We call it good Friday which for some it is just another Friday or it is the Friday before a Sunday in which they receive many gifts. This Friday is a Friday in which some of us will reflect on the most important thing that happened in the entire world. This Friday is truly a Friday in which we need to be thanking God.

Good Friday is a day where Christians around the world come together recognizing the death of a man, and though He was a man he was and is 100% God. The mystery of this seems to have been lost in the fairytales of our childhood, where a large magical bunny runs around poorly hiding eggs. I suppose the magic is that a bunny is laying eggs and hiding them, but I would much rather reflect on something much more mysterious.

To reflect upon our Lord is a great mystery and yet reveals many profound things. This Friday, let us recognize and  thank Jesus Christ for what he did on that Cross, let us reflect on how He bore the burdens of our sins, reflect on how He has washed us clean, reflect on how He calls us child. This Friday is certainly a good Friday because our God is good and for no other reason.

So I say Thank God Its Friday to you. I say it with proud humility knowing that this coming Friday is the Friday in which we celebrate our propitiation, our salvation, our redemption – and we celebrate this because our God is Good!

May we reflect on these words the next three days:

“For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.

There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.”

- John 3:16-21