When will we call it good?
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Today is Good Friday. The day when all Christendom remembers the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Whilst we may call it good today, it wasn’t actually referred to as good until 1290.
From my understanding of the scriptures, those first apostles and early disciples certainly were not looking up at the cross that day and thinking or saying that it was a good day. Quite the contrary. They didn’t even fully understand what Christ was teaching and his crucifixion probably didn’t make a whole lot of sense to most of them. It was only afterwards, looking back with hindsight that we have come to know the crucifixion as something good.
I think our lives follow a similar pattern sometimes. In the moment of suffering and pain, it can be hard, if not impossible for any of us to see the good in it. Often it is only when we look back, sometimes years and even decades after an event in our lives that we begin to see the good that it did for our development and the course of our lives.
Hindsight is always clearer than living in the present moment. I don’t know if we have to call all our suffering good in the moment that it is occurring. But I have wondered if God expects us to trust him enough that in the end all will be good, because his Good Friday.
Happy Easter.
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