Good Friday and Easter Weekend

Although Christmas has a special place in the Christian calendar, it is the final week of Christ' life, the Passion week, that takes the supreme place in our year.  To be sure, the events surrounding Jesus' death are of such pinnacle importance to all Christianity that they warrant observance and remembrance throughout the year.  However, for this week, this Easter week, we have the unique opportunity to consider at length the obedient suffering reckoned by our Lord Jesus by which He was crucified and died to pay the penalty for sin.  Because of Christ's great misery unto the cross, we have redemption, the forgiveness of sin, and have become sons and daughters of God by virtue of our rebirth in Jesus, which is made sure by His blood shed at the cross.

Because of all this, my exhortation today is to spend some time in prayer and in study, remembering the precious blood willingly spilt for our sin and iniquity.