Today is Friday, March 29th, 2013; Karen's Korner #2535
Today is "Good Friday". A couple of days ago my husband Jim asked, "Why do you suppose it's called 'good'?"
Don't know if my response was right or not, but I said, "Like everything God does, sometimes things happen which seem 'bad', it is only on the way to God's 'best'."
Do you have other responses to his question?
"About noon, darkness fell across the entire land,
lasting until three o'clock that afternoon.
"Then Jesus called out with a loud voice,
'Eli, Eli lama sabachthani?'
('My God, my God, why have you deserted me?')
"Some of the people standing there thought he was calling for the prophet Elijah.
So one man ran and got a sponge and filled it with sour wine and held it up on a stick.
"'Let's see if Elijah will come and take him down!' he said.
"Then Jesus uttered another loud cry, and dismissed his spirit.
"And the curtain in the Temple was split apart from top to bottom.
"When the Roman officer standing beside his cross saw how he dismissed his spirit,
he exclaimed, 'Truly, this was the Son of God!'"
~ Mark 15:33-39 (LB)
Bible Commentary: A heavy veil hung in front of the Temple room called the Holy of Holies, a place reserved by God for himself. Symbolically, the veil separated the holy God from sinful mankind. The room was entered only once a year, on the Day of Atonement, by the High Priest, as he made a sacrifice to gain forgiveness for the sins of all the people. When Jesus died, the veil was split in two, showing that his death for our sins had opened up the way for us to approach our Holy God.
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