What Would Jesus Do On Good Friday?

I wonder what I might do if I knew my executioners were coming, or more chilling, if I knew I’d soon be tortured to death. More important, what would Jesus do?

The One who could think a Universe into existence as easily as you and I take our next breath could have summoned legions of Angels to obliterate the arrogant “religious” men, the fools with the hubris to condemn the only righteous Man on earth, and the brutal soldiers who would dare to nail Him to a cross. Just one word from Him, and they’d have all been toast!

Honestly, I don’t know what I’d do, nor do you. But we don’t need to conjecture about what Jesus would do. It is a matter of record:

“Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, HE LOVED THEM TO THE END.” John 13:1

“… Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God” Hebrews 12:2

Why did He do it? Why didn’t He stop it? After we betrayed God by choosing sin (Adam, me, and you), after we wrecked this planet with hatred and war and murder, He remained determined to love us to the end, to endure the cross in order to rescue us from the peril of our own rebellion, allowing His sacred blood to flow as payment for your sin, and mine.

He knew His executioners were coming. He knew He’d be mocked and spit upon and tortured to death. What Jesus decided to do is a matter of record. Why He did it boggles the mind.

Do you know that YOU were on His mind has He endured that cross (Heb 12:2)? Our reconciliation with God was His joy, because WE are His joy.

God created us to love us. We turned from Him. He pursued us. He paid an astonishing price in the death of His Son to rescue us. He remains determined, even now, to love us to the end.

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” John 3:16

“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Cor. 5:21

What would I do? What would you do? Who in the world knows? What would Jesus do? This is a matter of record. The only important question now is, What is our response to such love?

Will we love Him to the end, even as Jesus loved us? Once we begin to understand all that God has done for us, in Christ, is there really any other reasonable choice?

“See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and such we are.” 1 Jn. 3:1

“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” 1 John 4:10

“We love, because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19