Why is Good Friday good?

  I like asking people to listen to this song, telling them it's from the perspective of a person from the bible, and then having them guess who it is. Not many do, but there are some good hints in the song.

I'll just tell you the answer though, its one of the thieves that was crucified with Jesus. 

But why is the song called "Revenge"?

And why do we call the day that our Savior was killed, good?

God created a perfect world for us to live, and from the beginning, we've been chosing our own way over His. 

We rebel, reject His design for us, seek after other things to fulfill our lives.

We turn our backs on our Creator, and what does He do to repay us?

What would a just judge do to lawbreakers? Give them the punishment they deserve.

"The wages of sin is death"

(Romans 6:23a)

And not just physical death, but spiritual death, separation from God.

That's what we deserve.

That's what we should receive as retribution.

But the "revenge" for our rebellion does not have to fall on us.

God is not only holy, and perfect, and just. He is loving, and merciful, even when we are far from deserving it.

He chose the only One who could stand in our place, a human, like us, yet sinless, and perfect. His Son, Jesus Christ. 

Jesus took our punishment. The wrath of God was poured out on Him, instead of us.

That dark day, when an innocent Man bore the sins of the world, is now a day that means hope and forgiveness. 

"So I stopped for a moment to look at the Son
Dying today
That's when the irony hit me
That this was REVENGE
That love had descended
And stolen our pain away"

As we go into this Easter weekend, lets take time to think about the wonderful, good gift our Savior provided for us. That the revenge we should have received fell on the shoulders of another, allowing us to join Him in Paradise for eternity.