Do we understand what Christ just did for us?

Do we understand what Christ just did for us?

We came on Good Friday, that day of real sacrifice; like a gentle lamb he allowed men to slaughter his goodness so that you and I could be free from their evil.

As a child cries out with a need to be held, so this Son of God called out that we may hear his voice that lives within each of us.  What do you hear as he hangs above the earth, saying, “I thirst.”  It is your soul that stands looking at a lamb now cut down and placed in a tomb, not even his? 

Will we wait until the next Good Friday when these evil proponents of Satan readies these demons to start over again to diminish God’s Son and laughs at the world as if to shout, “I have taken your God and made a mockery of him.”

Our thoughts are blurred by what I need to do to make this event a sign of things to come in my weakened life where sin still seeks to bring me down?  Wait, and find his grace is still being handed to each one when we accept through faith that gift of everlasting life.  

Today, if sin reaches out to the grace-filled soul that is us, reflect back to that Friday when the Son of God saw our pain and took it upon himself.  Our faith must allow our senses of need to absorb his words of “I thirst” to mean you no longer are my enemies but my brothers and sisters.  

It’s been 10 days since we stood on that knoll from which we looked and saw this Savior whom we could not help.  Yet, it is the crucifix that we carry as Catholics that is a reminder of the depth God would go to forgive our sinfulness, then and now without punishment because of this tree of life that held your Son high and glorious. 

In the same manner that I recently wrote regarding the Crucifix, we should always keep one with us as we walk, or on the desk or wall of where we work or sleep.  It reminds us of how far God would go to forgive us and a sign that Catholics are not ashamed to display this grace-filled image of his love for you and I. 

Even non-Catholic ministers allude to this cross, although do not mention the corpus, that is the only sign of how much God would love his sinful children as a human father loves his own children.   

Ralph B.Hathaway