My heart feels that today, Good Friday, is the holiest of all days. Given this, how do I write a reflection that adequately reflects the great love undergirding today. Good Friday so richly reveals to all of humanity our relationship with the Holy Trinity and the great, expansive love that lives within the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are invited into this love without cost because it has been freely given to us.
It is within this love that God gave each and every one of us to his glorified Son – Jesus Christ. Jesus, the man, understood our human pain and he experienced the effects of sin on humanity in his physical person. Yet, it was the Godhead who sent himself into the world as the Son to reveal his divine love to the world. This is how much God the Father loves us! He came into the world to meet us and take away our pain.
Jesus, in ultimate humility to the Father, surrendered all for the sake of all people. When he surrendered himself he simultaneously claimed all of us for himself and we became one with him through this love. When Jesus claimed us he also gave us the glory God gave him so that we could become filled with this glory. This was all done for the sake of Love and the expansion of Love.
All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. – John 17:10-11
Claiming Our Birthright
We are sinners, yes indeed. And we suffer because we are in the world – a world tainted with the stain of Original Sin. However, Jesus, in his perfection, ascended beyond the “world” while still living as a human being. We, my friends, are all invited to ascend with him as we walk the earth. It is our birthright to experience the garden God desired for us in the beginning. Before the Fall there was a time of perfect beauty, a time when God said it was very good – a time of perfect love. Jesus, the man, lived this experience of perfection while alive and this is why he said he was “no longer in the world”. We too can live “no longer in this world”; however, we need help doing so.
Every human person is a lover of Jesus Christ because his love lives within, and around, each and every one of us – from the greatest sinners to the greatest saints. It is within this love that we will find the path to perfection. Some of us are blessed to enjoy a larger portion of this love, while others are trapped in darkness and do not know how to fuel the internal spark of divinity.
A New Law
Today, Good Friday, is the day everything changed. This is the day where love triumphed and a new law entered into the world. Love won today! A new law, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, takes precedence over the law of sin and death. No longer are we subject to the law of sin and death, rather, we can choose to participate in the law of life that can only be found in Christ Jesus. However; we must choose life over death. Once we choose life we are free of the old law of sin and death.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. – Romans 8:2
Choosing Love
How do we do this? Jesus Christ, the One who is the way, the truth, and the life reveals to us the way into divine love and spiritual victory. He revealed the path we need to follow in his Passion on that first Good Friday. His Passion reveals to us the victory over death, remember his light overcame the “world” and it’s evil at the moment of death. I invite you to look at how small the skull is on a Crucifix in comparison to the size of Jesus’ body. Jesus is bigger than death because he is life personified.
Jesus took the place of all sin during his Passion and in doing so he displaced sin with love. Jesus allowed Judas to surrender to greed, he allowed the sinner Barabbas freedom when he took his place, and he allowed the people to falsely condemn him. In the entire Passion of Good Friday Jesus took the place of the greatest sins, committed by the greatest sinners, so that we could know that even the greatest sinners are subject to the new law of the Spirit of life inside Christ Jesus. He didn’t just take the place of small sins, no, he took the place of the greatest sins, and in doing so he revealed to us that the way into divine love is through forgiveness, acceptance and in loving one another with a deep passionate love worthy of sacrifice.
Perfection
Jesus was brought to perfection because of his reverence to the Father, a reverence that followed his prayers and supplications. Jesus wants us to follow his way as well. In all our trials, and in all our joy, we are to turn to the Father in prayer, supplication and reverence.
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, – Hebrews 5: 7-9
The Holy Trinity
Everything changed at that moment on the Cross on the first Good Friday, the moment when Jesus died. We now have the Holy Trinity; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirt, to guide us. Three in one, living in perfect love and inviting us into perfect love. As we move into this perfection love will expand in and through us. The greatest gift Jesus Christ gave us, and continues to give us, is his glory made manifest in divine perfect love. Our human hearts beckon to live in this divine glory.
The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. – John 17:22-23
Fasting of the Mind
If you are looking for ways to move deeper into the love Jesus Christ invites you into then I invite you to visit my webpage on meditation and contemplation. In it you will find several pathways I regularly use to fall more deeply into the perfect love of the Holy Trinity – I would love to meet you there. Here is the link: Fasting of the Mind.
Sacred Heart of Jesus – have mercy on us.
Father God – consume us.
Holy Spirit – enter in to us.
Mother Mary – pray for us.
My Book
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