A thought on Good Friday, Jesus and Britt

This is one of my favorite peices of art work based on the Cross. I think it depicts well the Pain, torture and suffering of the cross! 

Hello all!
Ok so I had this thought today as I was sitting in our Good Friday Service at my church. How often do we cry over Christ's death?

Now I for one am very uncomfterable with crying, It makes you vunerable, expresses your true emotion and is basicaly a physical expression of pain that breaks the myth of self sufficency. However that being said I have cryed a bit in the past few weeks and I find it some what essential in mourning and actualy for the Christian life in general.

Now I am going to interupt your thought processes for a breif minuit here to point out a myth. There was a myth in my mind and I believe in the Christian circle in general about mourning. I thought for myself that when Britt died all I needed to do was find out ways in which God was working thru her death, find out what God wanted to change in my life from it and basicaly just find God's good puropse from her death in order for me to be ok. You see the myth is that if you find God's hope in someone's death than that should take away the pain, that because we are Christians and have hope everything is ok(I believe a lot of times Christians need to feel that in life you always have to be happy and strong in order to prove that your a "good" Christian........do you get where I'm going with this?). WRONG! I have discovered that Hope does NOT take away any of the pain. Rather it just gives us the stregnth to persevere every day thru the pain, which I hear is supposed to get less and less with time however that has yet to be proven. But don't worry, this is not bad news, nor is it out of the blue. Jesus says all the time that the Christian life is all about perseverance. We were never promised an easy life, only that God will always be with us!.......Which is in my opinion better by far!

So now Back to Christ and Easter. With everything I just said in mind I was wondering to myself why I don't take Good Friday more seriously. In my mind I often brush off Christ's death to a poing because he rose again. However like I said before that Hope of the resurection does not take away from the pain of the death. Just like the fact that Britt is in heaven gives us hope it does not take away the pain of the death.

Unfortunately for me it is much easier for me to cry over Britt's death than for Christ's. It is much easier to read over Britt's personal letters to me a million times and memorise every word of them than it is for me to read over Christ's personal letters to me. (The Bible) To read over them a million times and memorise every word of them. And finaly it is easier for me to long for one more embrace, one more "i love you", one more moment to see her face, one more moment with Britt than for me for me to long for the face, the moment the embrace from Christ. I could not pull myself away from the open casket at the funeral because I wanted so much just to see her face, I can't see Britt's face anymore but I can see Christ's! As I was wondering why all of this was a thought came to me. Maby Britt was more real to me than Christ is. I mean If I really realised the REALITY OF A SAVIOR THAT DIED AND ROSE AGAIN FOR ME, I might be living my life a little differently. If I really realised how REAL and TANGABLE Christ is than I may be doing a few things differently and not be worrying so much about other things. Is my point very clear? I hope so because God has really put it on my heart this friday morning and I really just wanted to share that revelation with all of you. I encourage you to all live as eternal beings and to SEEK THE REALITY OF CHRIST EVERY DAY! Don't be surprised when Hard times come your way, they are going to such but Christ will pull you thru. Live with the knowladge of your eternity! And maby take a moment now to cry over the death of Christ.

God Bless!

Yours in Christ

~Melissa~Dotto~