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                        "The Gift Of Good Friday"

                          by Kevin H. Dougherty
   

   On Good Friday, we received the most wondrous, the greatest gift of
   all time, the answer to the very deepest cry of our hearts. We
   received salvation, and were restored to communion, to sonship with
   our eternal Father. There is not, nor will there ever be a greater
   gift.
   
   How like our God to do it the way He did at the time of Passover, the
   celebration He ordained to commemorate the passing over of the first
   born of Israel by the angel of death. Why? Because of the blood of the
   sacrificial lamb applied to the door posts of their homes. How like
   our God to choose the same feast to offer Himself up as the Sacrifice
   Lamb! Christ offered Himself up that day, the ultimate sacrifice,
   pouring out His blood that He might apply it to the door posts of our
   hearts.
   
   The same day He delivered Israel, he delivered us. Not only the same
   day, but in the sixth hour, the same time the priests sacrificed a
   lamb in the temple for the atonement of the sins of Israel. Our God
   offered Himself up as a sacrifice for us on the very day, at the very
   time of the most vivid, direct, graphic shadow of what Christ came to
   accomplish.
   
   He doesn't just point the way, He calls us, woos us, romances us as
   His beloved, He comes to us. All we need to do is say, "Yes." How many
   miss salvation because they are tripped up by the simplicity of it?
   Unable to believe it could be that easy, they walk away, to seek the
   answer elsewhere. Here lies the wonder of it. With human eyes we could
   never see it, or accept it. Salvation is far too simple, there must be
   more we reason. It is only when we allow God to reveal His plan
   through spiritual eyes, when we allow the Spirit to work in our
   hearts, that we are able to see and accept salvation.
   
   "Salvation is foolishness," some say. In the eyes of man, it IS
   foolish. God did that on purpose. He chose the foolish things to
   confound the wise. The things of God will always be foolishness to the
   natural eye. It is only through divine revelation that we can ever
   begin to understand the things of God.



              "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the
               Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him:
               neither can he know them, because they are
               spiritually discerned." (1 Corinthians2:14 KJV)

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