Today is Good Friday, the day on which we remember the trials, suffering, and death of Jesus. It is a good day, because it is the day in which we are shown that God stands with us, even in death. God stands with us, through the greatest of pain. God stands with us, not apart from us, but willing to even enter into the depths of our agony, our forsakeness, our solitude. Since Jesus suffered and died at the hands of people just like us, since Jesus was scorned, abused, mistreated, and unjustly accused, and since Jesus is a part of the Trinity...then what? Well, for me, then I know there is no place I can go Jesus has not been ahead of me. There is no depth of trial, no crisis of abandonment, no cruelty or treachery that God in Jesus has not already known, already experienced personally. And for me, that shows me that God in Jesus, indeed God in the Trinity, always stands with me. Do I always feel this clearly? No. But I trust in it with my whole being. God is for me, who can be against me? God is also for you...who can be against you? The depth of that trust is, in itself, a gift of God. And it is offered to all who will receive it.
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