Today is Thank God Friday.
And there is much to be thankful for.
- Over the past 2 weeks, church congregations can finally sing worship songs in church again, after two years of not being able to do so, due to Singapore’s Safe Management Measures.
- Since I only started returning back to physical church recently, I participated in Holy Communion for the first time since Covid started in 2020.
And of all Fridays, this Friday is especially Good:
Good Friday commemorates Jesus’ death on the cross – the darkest Friday of all Fridays.
Jesus died to pay the death penalty for all the sins of this world so that, in believing in Him, we can live eternal lives ie. our lives don’t end in physical death.
For after Good Friday comes Easter Sunday.
Where Jesus conquered death and rose again, three days later.
We remember the empty tomb and that our Saviour lives.
And it gives us hope for tomorrow.
(Christ on the Cross Painting by Pierre Bosco (1909-1993), which now hangs in my friend Sylvia’s home after she bought this in a auction of art pieces from a private collection.)
My closest encounter with death was journeying with Mum through her last days.
I saw her all tubed up in hospital for weeks.
I watched her slip into unconsciousness in her last three days.
I witnessed her last breaths in the final hours till passing.
Death is overwhelming to look in the face.
But I rest in the knowledge that Mum’s passing did not end there.
Thanks to Good Friday, Mum lives on with Jesus in Heaven today.
Because our Saviour died a sacrificial death on the cross.
Because our Lord overcame death and lives.
Because of Christ’s love so amazing and divine, we can hold onto hope in our dying world.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die.” – John 11:25
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