Michael Harrison's e-devotion

1 Corinthians 15:57  NLT But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ. Good Friday. Those two words seem to not go together, maybe even an oxymoron (when two words are put together but not alike).  What was good about that Friday? Fridays are most people’s favorite day of the week.  It is the end of the school or work week.  It is the day when the fun begins or the weekend.  Numerous reasons make Fridays a special day that have been exciting and look forward to forever. But not this Friday.  We are talking about the Friday of Easter when Jesus died.   This day was the end of of a era where so many lives were changed, miracles happened, people followed more every day, and there was Jesus in the middle.  Larger than like might describe Jesus. He was not set to be a king but was.  A different kind of king.  A savior king describes the part Jesus was given by His father. But it is the pain of this Frida...

John 19:17 (NASB) They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. Easter is this weekend.   Friday is the day we remember that Jesus, the son of God, was nailed to the cross and accepted His death as the act of redemption that all people had to have.   On Sunday we will remember and celebrate because of the resurrection of Jesus.   He is alive and has risen from the dead. It was on Calvary, the cross where Jesus died, that our sins were dealt with and our lives for eternity changed.   We owe everything to Jesus, but some have not accepted this as reality. Celebrate the historic reality of the cross of Christ.   Calvary was an incredible place that carries for us as Christians unending truth. The following is from my daily reading yesterday from YouVersion.com and the overflow devotions: Calvary is the story of the law colliding with grace....