04/03/2026
Happy Good Friday
At first, nothing about that day looks good. Jesus was betrayed, falsely accused, beaten, mocked, and crucified. Darkness covered the land. The Son of God hung on a cross. If you only look at the surface, calling it “Good Friday” seems wrong. But that is because the goodness of that day is not found in what was happening to Him. It is found in what was happening for you.
On that cross, Jesus was not losing. He was finishing. What looked like defeat was actually the moment sin was being fully dealt with. The Bible says in Hebrews 9:26 that He appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Not manage it. Not delay it. Put it away. That means the very thing that separated you from God was being removed in that moment.
Good Friday is good because it settled your standing with God forever. Romans 5:9 says that since we have now been justified by His blood, much more shall we be saved by Him from wrath. That means you are not waiting to be accepted. You are already accepted because of what He finished that day.
That is why it is called Good Friday. Not because of what Jesus went through, but because of what you now have because He went through it. You are not called to recreate the cross in your life. You are called to receive what the cross has already completed.
Excerpt from Brian Romero