Comments on: Good Friday http://bearingdrift.com/2008/03/21/good-friday/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Duck http://bearingdrift.com/2008/03/21/good-friday/#comment-600 Duck Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:01:37 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/2008/03/21/good-friday/#comment-600 Yes, thanx JR for the post. Growing up in the church and hearing lessons like this have taught me not to go along with the crowd. We sheep are way too easy to manipulate. The verse that really stood out for me today is But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor. What a man! To forgo defending yourself, knowing you are right takes a lot of guts. Jesus knew He could not talk His way out of it, and He did not want to. He shut His mouth and let history decide who was right. Yes, thanx JR for the post.

Growing up in the church and hearing lessons like this have taught me not to go along with the crowd. We sheep are way too easy to manipulate.

The verse that really stood out for me today is
But Jesus made no reply, not even to a single charge—to the great amazement of the governor.

What a man! To forgo defending yourself, knowing you are right takes a lot of guts. Jesus knew He could not talk His way out of it, and He did not want to. He shut His mouth and let history decide who was right.

]]> By: eileen http://bearingdrift.com/2008/03/21/good-friday/#comment-596 eileen Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:54:21 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/2008/03/21/good-friday/#comment-596 Good Friday lessons are ones that I'll never too soon completely forget. The events of that day were very much delved upon in remarkable detail growing up and attending Catholic schools. But it's been years since I've had the occasion to again go over them and think about them. So again, JR, thanks for posting this. The thing that's for some reason standing out today for me as most remarkable about Good Friday events is that crowd of people opting for Barabbus to be released in place of Christ. What were they actually so afraid of? Who led them to that point? Obviously with Pilate they had a lily-livered "leader". But his reluctance tells me there were other forces that delegated power in those days. Some many examples of man's frailty - the apostles who couldn't stay awake, Peter disowning Christ, Judas betrayal and ultimate guilt, the high priests trumping up charges, even Christ with his asking why God had forsaken him. Nobody broke through with a shining moment here. Nobody stepped up and said "Stop. This is wrong." Every other story has at least some voice stepping up that way. It was instead a 100% tragic day. But perhaps it was supposed to be the last of such tragic days as Christ was trying to teach us to instead stand up even in the face of adversity. Good Friday lessons are ones that I’ll never too soon completely forget. The events of that day were very much delved upon in remarkable detail growing up and attending Catholic schools. But it’s been years since I’ve had the occasion to again go over them and think about them. So again, JR, thanks for posting this.

The thing that’s for some reason standing out today for me as most remarkable about Good Friday events is that crowd of people opting for Barabbus to be released in place of Christ. What were they actually so afraid of? Who led them to that point? Obviously with Pilate they had a lily-livered “leader”. But his reluctance tells me there were other forces that delegated power in those days.

Some many examples of man’s frailty – the apostles who couldn’t stay awake, Peter disowning Christ, Judas betrayal and ultimate guilt, the high priests trumping up charges, even Christ with his asking why God had forsaken him. Nobody broke through with a shining moment here. Nobody stepped up and said “Stop. This is wrong.” Every other story has at least some voice stepping up that way. It was instead a 100% tragic day. But perhaps it was supposed to be the last of such tragic days as Christ was trying to teach us to instead stand up even in the face of adversity.

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