GOOD BY ANY STANDARD

GOOD BY ANY STANDARD


What is so good
About this day
We call “GOOD” Friday?


It is the day God died=
But it is the BEGINNING
Of the next three days=for
Which God-Jesus would live again=
And LIVE ETERNALLY


GOOD BY ANY STANDARD


“Though he was-
Harshly treated=
He submitted
And opened=NOT HIS MOUTH” Isaiah 53:7


Today our good-GOD man Jesus died=
But he was so good-
NOT even the grave
Could contain him


GOOD BY ANY STANDARD


“........but God
Intended it for GOOD
To accomplish


What is now
Being done=the saving
Of many lives” Genesis 50:20


“Taste and see
That the Lord
IS GOOD


Blessed is the one
Who takes refuge in him” Psalm 34:8


“Then you will
Win favor
And a GOOD NAME


In the sight of God
And man” Proverbs 3:4


WHY do we call
This day GOOD?
It is the day=
Jesus was tortured
And executed like a CRIMINAL


Yet we have called
This day GOOD
For centuries


It has to be good=
It is a SACRED DAY=
It is the day
Jesus' terrible death
Led to
The RESURRECTION=
And SALVATION of the world


WHAT can be MORE
GOOD than that?
Yes it is=Jesus was=
Jesus is=the man for all time=
The day is GOOD
BY ANY STANDARD


It is NOT only about
How much he SUFFERED=
It is about
How much=that HE LOVED


To go through anything
To PROVE how good=
HIS GREAT LOVE for us=is


“Why do you ask me-
About what is GOOD'
Jesus replied=
'There is only one
WHO IS GOOD” Matthew 19:17


“........being confident of this
That he who began
A GOOD WORK in you


Will carry it
On to completion
UNTIL the day of Christ Jesus” Philippians 1:6


And TODAY is the day
Of CHRIST JESUS=
And it is about
His incredible SACRIFICIAL LOVE
For us


And it is GOOD
BY ANY STANDARD=
Especially the standard
OF GOD


In Jesus' name=and in the name of our INCREDIBLE FATHER=both
Whose name ARE LOVE


Robert P. Wallman
4-9-20




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINR by Sr. Melannie Svoboda, S.N.D.