Today I was hunting for that perfect picture to shout out to all my online friends that I am a follower of Jesus, and today is a hugely significant day for me! Good Friday.
I saw all manner of beautiful pictures. Crosses with bold sunsets or rises. Crosses with light streaming down on them from moody clouds. Bejeweled crosses made from shiny gold, silver, platinum. Delicately carved stone and wooden crosses. Crosses covered in light fabrics blowing in the wind. Bold crosses made of large posts. Twigs bunched together and draped in flowers.
Lovely!!
But on and on I scrolled. Nothing jumped out at me as the perfect picture. The perfect cross.
And then I understood.
There is nothing 'picture perfect' about what my Lord suffered on that day. There is nothing beautiful to the eye when looking at death on a cross.
There is something incredibly beautiful about the why though. Its in the why that I find inspiration. Inspiration to follow God. To serve. To cry out for a more just world. To see beauty in the ugly. To see a ragged cross with hastily nailed together posts. Splintered and rough. Stained with my Saviours blood. With YOUR Saviours blood. Ugliness and beauty all rolled into one image. One act of love. One day of affirmation. So now we KNOW that he cares. That he wants us. That he would dare give his son. FOR US!
So no beautiful picture will accompany this post. There is no image that can do justice to the stark and overwhelming beauty of all Jesus did for us that day nigh on 2000 years ago. But there are words and there is Gods spirit who challenges us to believe. Because when we seek him with all our heart we will find him.
Luke 22, 23, 24.
John 3:16
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