The Lord's thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not our ways. And being a quote "Christian" doesn't invalidate that!
I have known the Lord over 20 years and many Christmas Eve's He has asked me to drive to the beach to talk, and it comes up about how he felt about the Eve before He came to earth in the flesh. It wasn't a happy time for Him. He had a choice to make. Would He follow the plan His Father had? He knew what it would mean. He told me that going to earth (that demon infested place) from heaven might be compare to going from earth to hell. And He did not have to. He had a choice to make.
Then in the garden He again had a choice to make. He wanted the plan, the cup His Father gave Him, taken away but still He wanted above all to do His Father's will!
And that brings us to a time we call "Good Friday"!
Now in the last 20 plus years I had never really talked to Him about how He felt about it, until yesterday. He wanted to talk to me about "Good Friday". He started by asking me "Who was it "GOOD" for?
So let me ask, "Who was Good Friday "Good' for?" - and can we take a second to really examine this?
I looked up 'Good Friday' on the internet:
Apparently it is sometimes called Holy Friday" or "Great Friday"
Do we not know that this was the day that men and demons got together and killed the King and Son of the most high? And we call this "Good", "Holy", and "Great"???
Yeah - I know - at the end of the day He asked His Father to forgive us anyway, and that meant and means a huge amount to us, but really - "Good", "Holy", and "Great"???
You know what? - His thoughts on the day are not our thoughts on the day!!! In fact as I talked with Him, I found out that perhaps nothing more demonstrates how His thoughts are not our thoughts than this - He explained.
He talked to me about how we hurt Him, and not just spiritually speaking. It wasn't "a great day for Him", He explained. And He started talking to me about that day was "beyond disrespect"! He talked about how the King in heaven He was used to respect, though He has seen more than enough disrespect on earth before coming here to understand that He was not going to be respected on earth. He even knew about the plan His Father had and how it was going to be painful. Yet, He explained, that going through it made Him angry - very very angry. He told me, "It lit the fires of hell", but I am not sure what the really meant."
He talked about how He held His anger in, which kept all from being destroyed right then. So was that a "Good" day - that we were not all destroyed right then? He talked to me about how their anger at Him was completely "unrighteous", but how His anger was completely righteous because He had done them no wrong. And I thought about how I was just as responsible because of my sinfulness. I wanted to cry and felt tears start to form in my eyes as He talked to me.
You know that when you talk to Him He always seems to have that small calm quite voice, and that was still how He was talking to me, but with it also comes a sense of knowing or understanding, and it can get to you. That was how it was, as I listened to Him.
He asked me if I thought it was a "Good' day according the angels in heaven who are His friends and faithful servants of His. And He asked, "If you have a friend that you see getting hurt by others, do you consider that a "Good" day?
From the conversation, I don't think the angels in heaven, nor the Holy Spirit, nor His Father in heaven were seeing that day as a "Good" day.
Still, at the end of the day He asked His Father to forgive us. And so the earth and all that was in it was not destroyed because He can and did control His righteous anger on that day. Thus we exists now, and I can talk to Him and write about it. But now I have a that question again -
Should we really called it "Good Friday"??
Is doing that something like saying - Wow, what a great day it was when we smacked You around, disrespected You, spit on You, put a crown of thorns on You, forced you to carry Your cross, and hung You on a cross until dead, and the drove a sword into You!"
That kind of rubbing it in - don't you think? I mean we know that He is always with us, right?
So if we are calling it "Good Friday", and "Holy Friday", when He is standing there listening to that, it really looks bad on us - don't you think?
Not a lot of respect for Him to this day, is there?
Note: I did also see where at times it has been called, "Black Friday", but I think we now use that for the day after "Thanksgiving", when we buy all those presents for each other.
After listening to Him I was thinking to myself - Wow we people, even we "Christian" people are a rather sad group. We killed our King and now remember that day as a "Good" day?
I have known the Lord over 20 years and many Christmas Eve's He has asked me to drive to the beach to talk, and it comes up about how he felt about the Eve before He came to earth in the flesh. It wasn't a happy time for Him. He had a choice to make. Would He follow the plan His Father had? He knew what it would mean. He told me that going to earth (that demon infested place) from heaven might be compare to going from earth to hell. And He did not have to. He had a choice to make.
Then in the garden He again had a choice to make. He wanted the plan, the cup His Father gave Him, taken away but still He wanted above all to do His Father's will!
And that brings us to a time we call "Good Friday"!
Now in the last 20 plus years I had never really talked to Him about how He felt about it, until yesterday. He wanted to talk to me about "Good Friday". He started by asking me "Who was it "GOOD" for?
So let me ask, "Who was Good Friday "Good' for?" - and can we take a second to really examine this?
I looked up 'Good Friday' on the internet:
Apparently it is sometimes called Holy Friday" or "Great Friday"
Do we not know that this was the day that men and demons got together and killed the King and Son of the most high? And we call this "Good", "Holy", and "Great"???
Yeah - I know - at the end of the day He asked His Father to forgive us anyway, and that meant and means a huge amount to us, but really - "Good", "Holy", and "Great"???
You know what? - His thoughts on the day are not our thoughts on the day!!! In fact as I talked with Him, I found out that perhaps nothing more demonstrates how His thoughts are not our thoughts than this - He explained.
He talked to me about how we hurt Him, and not just spiritually speaking. It wasn't "a great day for Him", He explained. And He started talking to me about that day was "beyond disrespect"! He talked about how the King in heaven He was used to respect, though He has seen more than enough disrespect on earth before coming here to understand that He was not going to be respected on earth. He even knew about the plan His Father had and how it was going to be painful. Yet, He explained, that going through it made Him angry - very very angry. He told me, "It lit the fires of hell", but I am not sure what the really meant."
He talked about how He held His anger in, which kept all from being destroyed right then. So was that a "Good" day - that we were not all destroyed right then? He talked to me about how their anger at Him was completely "unrighteous", but how His anger was completely righteous because He had done them no wrong. And I thought about how I was just as responsible because of my sinfulness. I wanted to cry and felt tears start to form in my eyes as He talked to me.
You know that when you talk to Him He always seems to have that small calm quite voice, and that was still how He was talking to me, but with it also comes a sense of knowing or understanding, and it can get to you. That was how it was, as I listened to Him.
He asked me if I thought it was a "Good' day according the angels in heaven who are His friends and faithful servants of His. And He asked, "If you have a friend that you see getting hurt by others, do you consider that a "Good" day?
From the conversation, I don't think the angels in heaven, nor the Holy Spirit, nor His Father in heaven were seeing that day as a "Good" day.
Still, at the end of the day He asked His Father to forgive us. And so the earth and all that was in it was not destroyed because He can and did control His righteous anger on that day. Thus we exists now, and I can talk to Him and write about it. But now I have a that question again -
Should we really called it "Good Friday"??
Is doing that something like saying - Wow, what a great day it was when we smacked You around, disrespected You, spit on You, put a crown of thorns on You, forced you to carry Your cross, and hung You on a cross until dead, and the drove a sword into You!"
That kind of rubbing it in - don't you think? I mean we know that He is always with us, right?
So if we are calling it "Good Friday", and "Holy Friday", when He is standing there listening to that, it really looks bad on us - don't you think?
Not a lot of respect for Him to this day, is there?
Note: I did also see where at times it has been called, "Black Friday", but I think we now use that for the day after "Thanksgiving", when we buy all those presents for each other.
After listening to Him I was thinking to myself - Wow we people, even we "Christian" people are a rather sad group. We killed our King and now remember that day as a "Good" day?
