“Good Friday” is so-called because it is good. Why is it good? Because on this day God accomplished the greatest good that the world will ever know.
The world never knew an evil like this. But here’s the kicker: It pleased God. It was his will.
Christ had to die to bear our transgressions and iniquities. He had to suffer the penalty that was due us for us to be made alive to God… so God was pleased to do it.
Christ did it for the joy that was set before him. Jesus bought his people with his own blood, to reconcile them to God so that we might behold his glory.
God’s purposes are clearly beyond what we are able to comprehend. On this day, about one thousand nine hundred seventy-some-odd years ago Jesus’ disciples were distraught–to say the least. Those who loved him were heartbroken.
How could the innocent die? How could such evil have happened? How could GOD let this happen? Doesn’t he know what he’s doing? Isn’t he all-powerful? Isn’t he good? Isn’t he sovereign?
“Good Friday” answers the problem of evil. God willed the greatest evil of all time so that he could accomplish the greatest good the world would ever know: Purchasing a people for himself, for his own glory.
What a wonderful Saviour!