Yesterday was Good Friday, as many of you know. In honor of Good Friday, my mother and I watched "The Passion of the Christ". It was my first time watching it and I thought it was a very well made movie! With great acting, exceptional accuracy, thought-provoking imagery, and professional cinematography! But, to me, that movie was more than just an R rated film I was allowed to watch. To me, it was a grotesquely accurate depiction of what our Savior went through for us. He was beaten nearly to death, ripped apart by the leather wrath of whips, he was spat on like he was nothing but part of the filthy road, he was insulted and betrayed like a common criminal, he was stretched to the point where his shoulders were dislocated on the cross, his limbs were nailed to the cross as if he could feel no pain, a crown of long thorns was pressed into his skull, he was humiliated and laughed at by the people he came to save. All of this and he did NOTHING WRONG. He went through all of that pain, all that embarrassment just to save sinful, fallen, lowlifes like us. He did this because he loves us! He did this because he cared for us! He did this because we are his lost children and He did this to redeem us.
We often take this for granted. We often think of Easter and Good Friday as two trips to church in a week. We think of it as an Eater egg hunt in the backyard. We think of it as a new dress or hat we get to buy. We think of it as eating leftovers for the rest of the month. But Easter isn't any of that. It was the ultimate sacrifice given to us even though we did nothing to deserve it. It is the purest, most genuine, most true love that Jesus Christ showed us.
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