A Prayer for Good Friday

A Good Friday Prayer

Gracious and Merciful Savior, we rejoice today in You!
To think you were willing to be forsaken by the Father,
As you hung suspended between earth and heaven,
Alone, bleeding and broken, mocked by the very creatures
Whom you made, abandoned by the disciples you had chosen.

To think that you suffered in unimaginable ways in order to
Propitiate God's wrath, redeem us from sin,
Reconcile us to the Father, and justify us forever more!

O Lord of lords ..... O King of kings, we praise you that
You did not regard equality with God something
To be grasped with an iron fist. Rather you let go
And you entered this sinful world as one of us!
Yet your deity was never diminished, you remained fully God.

Indeed this mystery is great! Yet greater still is
The blessing that is ours because of your sacrifice!

Thank you for becoming our substitute ... for dying in our place ...
For paying the penalty for our sin and rebellion that we had
Absolutely NO hope of paying on our own.

Thank you that because of the cross you can take us
Who are dead in sin and make us alive in yourself!

Thank you that on the third day following your death on the cross
You arose from the dead ... never to die again and giving to us
A HOPE that will never fail.

Thank you that we who were once your enemies you now call
"My friends."

Today we boast not in ourselves or in anything we have done.
Today (and may it be every day) we boast in your cross!

Amen!


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pj