Good Friday certainly is not the best day for a party but it
is a time to celebrate the on-going gift of love that was freely given to us
some two thousand years ago, the gift that keeps on giving.
Here’s C. S. Lewis’ take on it.
“...the New Testament is always talking about Christians
‘being born again’; about ‘putting on Christ’; about Christ ‘being formed in us’; about our coming to ‘have the
mind of Christ.’
Put right out of your mind the idea that these are only
fancy ways of saying that Christians are to read what Christ said and try to
carry it out – as a man may read Plato or Marx said and try to carry it out.
They mean much more than that. They mean that a real Person, Christ, here and
now, in that very room where you are saying your prayers, is doing things in
you. It is not a question of a good man
who died two thousand years ago. It is a living Man, still as much a man as
you, and still as much God as He was when he created the world, really coming and
interfering with your very self; killing the old natural self in you and
replacing it with the kind of self He has. At first, only for moments. Then for longer periods. Finally, if all goes
well, turning you permanently into a different sort of thing; into a new little
Christ, a being which, in its own small way, has the same kind of life as God;
which shares in His power, joy, knowledge and eternity.”
He died so that we might live.
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